Date:         Sat, 7 Jul 2001 21:24:28 -0400
Reply-To:     John Anderson <jander14@WVU.EDU>
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From:         John Anderson <jander14@WVU.EDU>
Subject:      FS: Set of rebuilt 2.1 heads and gaskets
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OK last one, these slipped my mind.  What I got here needs a bit
of explanation.  These are two Mark Stephens (yeah groans, but as
good as AVP I'll warrant you on these) heads with about 500 miles
on them.  This is how it went, bought the '87 for a friend (heads needed
done) and he paid for the heads, put em on, ECU was dead, while
tracking down an ECU (took a while) he lost interest, I paid him for
the heads, then drove it from Washington DC to Clarksburg WV where
I promptly decided to take them off again and save them for dad's '90,
JB-welded a fair set of heads for the '87 drove it for a couple of years.
Dad eventually traded the '90 so here sit the heads.  We went through
rounds with Stephens on these, sent back 2 before I got a set I
liked enough to keep in the first place.  Things positive about these,
they are nicely welded, have NO corrosion around the bores the
barrels slide into, and did NOT have the seats replaced (as was
Stephens practice on excellent waterboxer cores.)  They also have
proper 3 angle valve jobs (AVP doesn't unless they've changed) and as
a matter of course I hand lapped them in and matched to 0.5cc when
we got them.  They had when we got them and still have the between
the seat crack as pictured in the manual on one chamber in each head,
but I specifically went with these over Stephens or AVP welded seats
having seen the comparitive quality.  Regarless they are hairline cracks
and the book says they can be up to 0.5mm wide, these are only just
visible.  Anyway it will be obvious they have only 500 miles worth of
combustion deposits (just a sprinking of carbon, none on the face of the
valves even) and that from gasket mating surfaces they were barely on
(less than 3-4 months, and only run 2 days in that time.)  Bus Depot
wants $220 each plus cores for rebuilt and another $100 for the gaskets.

I want $400 for the two heads, and most of a gasket set (I'm not sure what
I got but you will get at least a tube of Dirko, top and bottom barrel
O-rings,
head gaskets, the steel head gaskets, a water pump gasket, pushrod tube
gaskets, and an assortment of flange gaskets and whatever else is about.
The only thing I'm not sure is there is the intake manifold gaskets.

That would be $540 worth of stuff from BD and your core money, you can
keep your cores and JB weld em for the next van this way.  I need the $400
for this, no offers or I'll just keep em.  You pay actual shipping from
Morgantown, WV.  This is as cheap as you'll ever put heads on a
waterboxer for the quality.

John
jander14@wvu.edu