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Originally posted by AF300E
If the head is warped enough to allow oil to mix with coolant, then surely the cam has excessive load on it before you remove the head. If you then machined the head to flat and refitted it, you'd simply have the same amount of load on the cam as before. Or not?
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My experience with M102 & M103 head gasket failures has been that they fail due to corrosion or breakdown of the gasket (between oil and coolant passages) rather than warped heads.
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