Originally Posted by Transman
Originally Posted by 73DAD
How thin of a deck would you consider as a 'no go'?

My beater '66 hemi block is already .080" shorter than nominal, it needs further milling from some gouges in the deck. Some gorilla tried to pull out the 1/4" dowels with vicegrips & scarred it up. I haven't had the deck sonic'd yet, was just looking for some reference.

Street use, standard head bolts/stud, stock iron heads.


If the marks are not in the load cell/bead area of the gasket then as mentioned, just lightly file to get any high spots out and be done with it.


I wish the marks were just cosmetic, but they managed to gouge all the way around and over the edge of the nearest cylinder wall, deep. Otherwise I probably would have just run it. Its bad enough I'll have to ridge ream or round file the cylinder lip in that spot.