ASE Tech's - Quick Question
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ASE Tech's - Quick Question
This is for the tech's but if anyone else knows please answer.
My question is when a tech performs a head gasket replacement is checking head "warpage" a step in the job, or is this only done by techs that care?
Reason for my question is I had my '05 F-250 with 130,000 km in lately to replace blown head gaskets. I believe it was due to use of an SCT tuner and will not be re-installing. The tech was going on holidays the next week and had to get my truck done before he left.
Since I got the truck back I have been worried about the heads being warped or cracked and this happening again. I do have warrenty left until 160,000 km but I like to know that everything was completed properly. I haven't had any problems, I'm just wondering.
Thanks Guys.
My question is when a tech performs a head gasket replacement is checking head "warpage" a step in the job, or is this only done by techs that care?
Reason for my question is I had my '05 F-250 with 130,000 km in lately to replace blown head gaskets. I believe it was due to use of an SCT tuner and will not be re-installing. The tech was going on holidays the next week and had to get my truck done before he left.
Since I got the truck back I have been worried about the heads being warped or cracked and this happening again. I do have warrenty left until 160,000 km but I like to know that everything was completed properly. I haven't had any problems, I'm just wondering.Thanks Guys.
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both is your answer, but a tech who cares and wants to do it right will be the best choice. i havent had the first head i could reuse ever. .002 is not that much and i have only seen one set get reused, those were on a brand new econ that the bolts were never torqued down from the factory.
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When I do engine/head work the first thing I check when the head is off is for faltness on the block and the head. With that being said its hard to say with confidence that every tech does it. There are a lot of short cuts taken in flate rate shops. When I was in a flate rate shop I did take some short cuts but nothing that would cause me to have to work for free if the same repair came back and needed to be doen again. I am not sure how it works in other dealers. But where I worked if I broke it or it was related I had to fix it...for free. So you can be sure if I worked on it it was fixed right the first time. Now that I have my own buisness I dont need to make short cuts I just take my time and price the job accordingly, or whatever the book tells me. Hopefully this sheds some light on how it works in a dealership.
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Be advised as well, that the accepted method of using the straightedge is "top to bottom", or from the intake ports to the exhaust, and not lengthwise.
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the 6.0 is a very tight engine. even if we could machine the heads, .010 is all we could go before the head is trashed period. i have even heard, some heads out of the box were out .002, but i havent heard that in forever.