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Old 11-14-2017, 11:22 AM
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Yeah, it stands to reason that if I am careful with torqueing it would be okay. I can understand that on an aluminum engine if you overheat it you end up with a lot of differential expansion between the aluminum block and the steel bolts so you overload the threads from the get go.

Before I make a definite decision I need to either borescope the #2 cylinder or do a leak down test and verify that it is the valve that is burned. Again it stands to reason that I overheated the valve from running very lean (at least that is the most likely case) but I want to make sure that that cylinder and pistons/rings are fine before going at the head and also that I didn't throw a chunk of the valve in the cylinder and bang anything up.

As of now my plan is that if it looks like it is just the valves amiss I'll do the head job and if there is any damage to the pistons and block I'll swap the engine.
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