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Hello all! We rescued an 06 Magnum R/T AWD with a dropped valve seat a couple weeks ago. It's gonna be my 14 yo son's first car. We pulled the head this last weekend, and I would like some opinions on whether or not the piston will need to be replaced. It's got a pretty good stamp as seen in the pic, but it doesn't appear to be cracked at all. I'll clean the high spots off and see how deep it looks then, but I'm gonna say it's all of 30-35 thou deep. I put a caliper on it and I consistently got 0.026 as the lowest point with the square caliper end. If it needs to be replaced, can we do this in the car being that it's AWD, or does it need to come out?
Also, I included a pic of the head, I'm assuming that is now a good practice piece for learning to port 😎, and not worth repairing?
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Also, I included a pic of the head, I'm assuming that is now a good practice piece for learning to port 😎, and not worth repairing?
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