Evening,

In a post couple weeks ago, I mentioned my lost compression in cylinder 3.
I got the head off today, and found a significant gap in the exhaust valve, it also looks as though the valve is bulged. Also, the top of piston three is bone dry, can I assume this is down to the valve problem and not something else?





On the plus side, the cylinder walls look spot on.

Ive never worked a head before, but Im fairly competent in the old spanner department.
Thoughts on my next step, should I,
rebuild with standard bits,
take the opportunity to port & polish and uprated (possibly out sourcing to a experienced builder )
source a ready uprated head (such as the NMS one in the for sale section).

Any thoughts and advice very welcome,

Cheers guys

Wayne