[Vwdiesel] Help - messed in the head...

[LBaird119 at aol.com]

> I understand clearly what you say...but, if you have a head that
> over-enthusiastic deck shaving has reduced the chamber volume in then by
> adding more thickness in the head gasket than merely coming up to the piston
> tops, could also be used as a technique to restore compression ratio,
> otherwise it will be higher than design.
> 
> 

  The chamber is completely isolated from the head surface unless you 
want to count the roughly 8mm x 8mm opening into it.  Cutting .010 
even from that hardly constitutes reducing the chamber volume.  The 
valves are in recesses, slightly.  They'd be about 35 to 40mm in dia. 
and maybe 3mm deep?  That's just not enough to go changing head 
gaskets over IMO.
     Loren