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Re: Thermal expansion in cylinder heads
Posted to Technical Theory Forum on 9/8/2016

I too do not understand why heat cycling the heads would result in the seats being harder to remove. I think you would have to repeat the experiment on a number of heads in order to determine if in fact the heat cycle tightens the fit of the seats.

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