so.. i was doing some work on my car today and came across this:




i'm stumped. i put everything together CLEAN, last time. it was all lubed up. you name it (or.. i guess not...). the head side of this cap is fine. the cam was fine. just this. i was like "wtf??!!".

i've read i can either buy a new cap and have it honed to match the rest or get a used head.

i'm a sad panda.

 

That sucks. Good luck on gettin it fixed.

 

thanks, yo. i'm thinking buy a used head. install. buy a cap. hone. sell spare head. i guess. hell. i just don't know right now. i'm tired of working on this pile of crap.

 

Check the vendor for sale and look at TopLevelPerformance I believe they have some for sale for 40 bucks each.

 

fixed. we have a REALLY good machine shop in Fresno.

he says this happens quite often, unfortunately. he took a flapper wheel to clean it up a bit. he said the difference in tolerance should be okay seeing how not much metal was removed/cleaned plus it's one cap of many.
we'll see how it goes.

 

good luck.

 

Thanks guys. I'll let ya know how it goes.