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Old 09-07-2019, 04:21 PM
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Originally Posted by Sirrotica View Post
I had a friend that used to do valve jobs in the evenings for extra money at his house, He bought a pickup truck load of late 70s SBC cylinder heads from a wrecking yard thinking he would get some un-cracked heads to replace the cracked ones he was running into. Out of the whole load of heads, he only got 3 heads out of the whole pile. I would guess 50-60 heads with 3 un-cracked in the valve seat area. 6% good 94% cracked...….LOL.
Sounds to me like the salvage yard cleared-out their scrap pile. I'm having trouble accepting that that high of a percentage of heads that were "supposed" to be good--or even a random sample of good/bad--would be defective.

I think they knew the heads were bad, and they dumped them on him.