Hello All
I bought a A-4 a while back and have been working on getting it together everthing apeared to be in good shape so I desided to just rering and hand lap the vavles, after getting it all back together I was torqing the haed and pulled a stud about the center of the block on the exhaust side so I pulled the head back of and retaped to 7/16 then I noticed a crack threw the theads to the water port. I went ahead and pulled all the studs out at that point and checked everyone real close and all the ones on the exhaust side of the block that are about a 1/4" away from the water port openings have hairline cracks, Is this normal on these or is my block shot? the cracks dont go into the intake or exhaust chambers, I am a little curiouse as to what caused it
thanks
Tom
I bought a A-4 a while back and have been working on getting it together everthing apeared to be in good shape so I desided to just rering and hand lap the vavles, after getting it all back together I was torqing the haed and pulled a stud about the center of the block on the exhaust side so I pulled the head back of and retaped to 7/16 then I noticed a crack threw the theads to the water port. I went ahead and pulled all the studs out at that point and checked everyone real close and all the ones on the exhaust side of the block that are about a 1/4" away from the water port openings have hairline cracks, Is this normal on these or is my block shot? the cracks dont go into the intake or exhaust chambers, I am a little curiouse as to what caused it
thanks
Tom
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