greekgodchaos
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- Jul 4, 2007
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Vancouver,
Washington
So I'm going to be taking in my block to the machine shop this week and I'm going to have them align hone with the torque plate. I know you need to use a head gasket when using a torque plate in order to achieve the proper whatever to ensure that the cylinders are bored properly. My question is can I reuse my old crushed MLS head gasket or do I have to get another one just for the sake of align honing the block?
There's a chance that the cylinder walls will have to be bored out half a millimeter because there is scoring on the cylinder walls, in which case I guess I really couldn't use my previous head gasket and would have to order two 86mm head gaskets in order to get the job done, one for torquing with the torque plate and one for final assembly. If this is the case, does anyone have an old junk 86mm MLS 1.6mm HG they'd be willing to part with?
There's a chance that the cylinder walls will have to be bored out half a millimeter because there is scoring on the cylinder walls, in which case I guess I really couldn't use my previous head gasket and would have to order two 86mm head gaskets in order to get the job done, one for torquing with the torque plate and one for final assembly. If this is the case, does anyone have an old junk 86mm MLS 1.6mm HG they'd be willing to part with?