[Vwdiesel] I dinged my rebuilt head HELP!

[mark shepherd]

Maybe a bodywork hammer would be best, as you don't want to remove flesh 
ideally...
Mark
----- Original Message ----- 
From: <LBaird119 at aol.com>
To: <william at taygan.com>; <vwdiesel at vwfans.com>
Sent: Saturday, January 24, 2009 1:43 AM
Subject: Re: [Vwdiesel] I dinged my rebuilt head HELP!


>
> In a message dated 1/23/2009 3:32:55 PM Pacific Standard Time,
> william at taygan.com writes:
>
>> It's on the gasket-mating surface, but outside of the part on the gasket
>> where the metal is, probably in 1/8" or so, extending to the edge. It's
>> raised just enough that I can feel the bumps.
>>
>> Is this critical?  Should I sand it down?  What grit?  Do I need to
>> bring it back to the shop?  Ugh.
>
>  From your description it sounds like it's outside the combustion
> chamber and doesn't protrude into the chamber area?  The biggest
> concern would be if it went into a water port or crossed the
> ring around the cylinder.
>  If that's well then flat file it, don't sand.  You only want to knock
> off the high spots not anything else.  Sanding tends to take the
> whole area down but just the high spots more.  It'll make more
> of a mess than leaving it likely.  You could sand but only with a
> solid block thus a fie is quicker and more accurate.
>   Loren
>
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