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Old 04-30-2019, 10:39 AM
Frank Reiner Frank Reiner is offline
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Originally Posted by BWhitmore View Post
Metric Motors has a good reputation. You can ask to have the head magnafluxed to check to insure that the weld repaired the crack properly. The magnafluxing should be done at their expense.
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Originally Posted by blackmerc View Post
Thanks for your help.In principle, then, a weld in the head is OK? Should I expect to see higher compression in that cylinder?

Magnafluxing is a magnetic particle inspection process for ferrous metals.
The cylinder head in question is aluminum; the inspection process for non-ferrous metals is called Zyglo (sp?).


A 1cc change in chamber volume is not significant.
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