Dayuum that sux, but looks like you will be good as new and on the water soon!

Check with JOMAR, they make them for a ton of cylinder head companies. They had racks of cylinder heads they used for measuring and checking new designs.

That is exactly what happened to a customer of ours. Bought a 42X from a big Loto boat dealer that claimed they did "valve jobs". All they did was float new springs and throw a set of rocker arms on it. 2 hours after he got it home a lifter took a dump and wiped the cam out. That was right in the middle of covid and the guy damn near lost a whole season while we tried to find a 700 cam.

Pretty sad how some brokers/dealers operate these days. Friend who also bought a 700 powered boat, albeit warmed up 700s, also had failures shortly after when he was told too ends had been redone very recently.

Every time I hear this if I ever buy another I/O I want it to blow up during the sea trail. Then at least I can hammer the price down and know what I have when its finished.

I know that feeling as well. Was buying a new used boat and had it surveyed, but he didn't do engines. The broker wouldn't let me do a compression test so I hired the local mechanic to do it. Paid him $150 and found out later he didn't do the job I paid him for. He lost his compression tester adapter that I found later and never finished the job. The boat only had 50 hours on it and I found out later it had been sitting in a garage and never properly stored. I had so much rust in the bores they had to be honed out to get the rings to seal which required new pistons and of course I made some upgrades during the process. So $12,000 later ...

Second motor is done and getting ready to go back in, just in time for Desert storm and supercat fest west in havasu then off to loto in june

They look so Pretty

Beautiful!!