Resurfacing Flywheel Thread - machine shop vs. emery cloth

[Smokey Eddy]

I try to just keep the head from getting nicked as best i can. I use 600 grit and a bit of oil to clean the gasket material off (what ever doesn't come off with a razor blade) and it comes off quick. As in 1 or 2 light strokes.

Oddly enough, very off topic but, i noticed some sizable cracks in the precups froming from the opening. 1 was almost 1cm long. None that i could feel with my finger nails but that head has less than 20,000km on it. I suppose they were very rough kilometers running much higher pressure than that head was intended for...

I hate precups. I hate indirect injection. but its what i got so i have to deal with it...
definitely going TDI after this AAZ blows up as im sure it will.

[Smokey Eddy]

oh man i got hosed. Buddy just called me to say it was done. $84 after taxes... it was $8 more than the one i JUST had done last week.
that makes my 210mm flywheel $134.
so flywheel, clutch and pressure plate cost almost the same as what i paid for my entire engine (bare mind you though - no bearings, rings & seals ect).

[Smokey Eddy]

oh its the new "harmonized sales tax" that just came into effect on the 1st of july...
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we pay INSANE tax in BC. like ... 15% HST and sometimes you pay GST or PST or both ONTOP of that so almost 30%. the HST is supposed to be both the PST and GST but apparently sometimes you have to pay all three?

[mtnbob]

Don't feel bad, thanks to Obama We will be getting big tax increases starting the first of the year as all of the Bush tax breaks expire. Obama will then be raising our taxes further to pay for all of the "free programs" that we are going to get.

[Smokey Eddy]

im a fan of taxing the rich and improving the quality of life of the poor. makes for an overall better country.
but i dont undestand how this HST is going to do any of that.
i think taxing should be based 100% on income.
there is no need for the rich to be astronomically rich and the poor pathetically, hopelessly and desperately poor.

[burn_your_money]

we pay INSANE tax in BC. like ... 15% HST and sometimes you pay GST or PST or both ONTOP of that so almost 30%. the HST is supposed to be both the PST and GST but apparently sometimes you have to pay all three?

  That's not how it works in Ontario. If you were charged all 3 taxes then I think someone is trying to make a few extra dollars...

[Smokey Eddy]

yeah who knows. There is an extra charge of $6 in the invoice "re & re dowels" that wasn't on the other invoice for the 200mm FW.