25-11-2012, 12:42 PM
(25-11-2012, 11:44 AM)Cheese Wrote: Depends what the buyer is expecting! If it was me, I'd expect a completely bare head with or without valves, springs and collets.
Not worth taking the valves out (you need a valve spring compressor) unless you need a couple of spares or the buyer plans on doing some head work and fitting bigger valves, as you'd need to recut the valve seats anyway.
Always best to keep the valves cam and followers together as they all wear together. At the very least the cam and followers need to be kept as one, matched with the correct lobe on the cam.
What are you trying to do? Just strip a head to sell it or rebuild one for yours? Makes sure you factor in a couple of days to have the replacement head skimmed prior to fitting.
I see you're new....most know the story here already lol. Cams are knackered, lifters have dents and holes lol....car has been stripped for parts but want to sell the bare head if possible. Basically want to know if the carrier bolts and bearing shells could be reused (and the new buyer would expect them) or if they have to be replaced anyway so just bin them.
