Well we have issues.
First though the repair is finished and looks just fine. Timeserts were installed in 4 bad bolt holes plus the ear repair.
Mr. Conley the weld up repair and the timesert is about 170/180 bucks. Less than I expected. 45 minutes on the welding plus the timesert prep/install.
The issues are that the guys at the shop don’t want to put hardened seats in because there is almost no backing head material under parts of the seats. As well as the seat depths are all over the place.
As we talked about what makes sense, the idea was floated to run solid lifters with the seats that are already installed as that may ease the hot spot pressure on them.
Hope these pics make sense to you. Putting a finger under the seat there is just nothing there. I asked about welding some more material in there and they didn’t like that idea both cost wise and the weld would be harder than the head material causing more problems.
Anyway, here are the pics of that.
So it all comes down to how much do I want to save this CJ. I know, I know, aluminum heads would solve all my problems but that isn’t the point here. Although I’m starting to question my sanity.
I’m figuring I could leave these seats in and drive it sparingly. It certainly will never be a set of race‘heavy duty heads and I’m starting to revise my hp desires.
Wuch y’all think?
