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Old Mar 26, 2006 | 02:00 PM
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My heads were slightly damaged one way or another before they got to my house.

I have a pic...but it is poor quality.

It is very shallow....you can barely feel it with your finger....but it is their.
I am using mls gaskets as well. The main thing that worries me is where it is located. Since I am using metal gaskets it doesnt seem like it could seal that crevice and coolant would leak from the water port out to the bolt hole or something? If it were on an edge or something I wouldnt worry....but it is almost like a little river running between the holes in the picture. It is very small....but Im not sure what to do?
I pointed to it and outlined it lightly in the picture as you can see
what do you guys think?
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Any help out there?

Ill be building the beast soon
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Get them milled. Not that expensive, like $150-$200 depending on shop.
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I figured I would probably have to mill them.

I just thought maybe someone knew if the gasket could make up for a minor blemish like that. If someone had concrete knowledge I would consider leaving them alone. Doesnt seem like an mls gasket would be good for sealing a small crevice though.

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I would have them milled to be safe...can't really see the damage but because of the location of the damage, it would be in your best interest to do so. Good luck
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A machine shop can tell you better than any of us here on the net honestly, and it's free to ask. I guess when I first responded it was more because I like compression ( milled heads ).
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I would try to get a more detailed pic....but the size limit is 100kb...I had to turn my camera down to 2.0 mega pixels

I appreciate the input
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If you have Office 2003, you can use Office picture manager to resize a photo to fit in 100kb yet still retain a ton of detail.
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