K-engine project - A possible low cost rebuild?

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Originally Posted by rrobson

Great work, it's coming along very nicely.
I peened a head which was put on a 25 and can recommend the procedure.
As long as you don't go daft with the hammer you won't need to remove much more than 10 thou. I think I removed 11 to clean it up.
You can feel the difference when preening around the ring, the exhaust side was much softer than the inlet side.

Good luck

Hi there,

Nice to read your experience

I have done a cylinder head according to the above procedure a while back including the peening. It has covered thousands of miles since that operation and is still working great. What I did that time was also to da a hardnes test and fitted the saver shim together with a MLS gasket. It weeps a little as the MLS`s tends to do, so I will go for the Elastomer gasket this time. Here are the other cylinder head I reconditioned: http://forums.mg-rover.org/showpost....&postcount=107