Not a very interesting day, took the head down to the machine shop that I used to use and talked with the machinist's. They seemed to be comfortable with skimming the head for us and felt that it needed to be done given the slight warp/sway the head had. I'm assuming they will be able to tell me how much they will have to remove and I'm anticipating it being a fairly thin skim-hope I'm right.
After leaving the head with them I took the flywheel and new pressure plate to another shop to get the flywheel surfaced and balanced with the new pressure plate. Believe it or not this took up most of my morning.
Then this afternoon I was busy researching and preparing parts orders, SNG has been my primary supplier and continues to be so but I'm going to have to find another vendor for the head gasket as I want a 'Cometic' brand head gasket (which has the best reputation for this critical piece). I also ordered a pint of POR15 gloss black engine paint for the engine block.
One little addendum, the machine shop tested the head/valves with a device that puts a vacuum on the hemispherical chambers in the head to test the seal of the valves- Jennifer's passed with flying colors!
Cheers,
Lynn
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