Hahaha, crap.
I finally had some time to work on the project today. Realized after turning the intake cam 360* that I hadn't put shims in. Pulled the intake cam, cleaned up a few marred buckets (
) making heavy use of a stack of neodymium magnets, got shims installed on the intake side, and managed to get shims into the exhaust side without pulling that cam. Only two exhaust shim buckets needed cleaning up at least. Re-installed the intake cam, got everything torqued, and was out of time.
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I didn't want to bag the head
again so I dropped the valve cover on as a dust cover. It's so badly warped that I can rock it corner-to-corner. Like a 4mm gap.
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Guess I found that oil leak I'd been chasing...