Merlin supposedly puts severe duty valves on when you buy them assembled.

I guess we will find out when I buy the next head. That one is pretty much junk now.

the block salvagable?

Yeah, Should be about the same as your last one. Needs 2 pistons and a new head. Possibly a rod.

I guess I can start slamming Merlin heads now. You would think they would laast more than 2 hours before coming apart.

the weird thing is it is the intake and not the exhaust... oh well it could be worse..........

you could be pulling it back from new orleans with a blown motor.

i wonder if it could be an oiling problem? did you use old rocker arms? if roller rockers have a bad needle bearing the can lock up and break a valve.

They arent going to warranty it? valves should just break maybe machine work was sloppy and valve guides or something was bad?

you would be surprised of what they can do to rebuild heads

what did the end of the sparkplug look like? I wonder if it failed and rattled in there?

it could be a lot worse......don't get your d!ck in the dirt.....rember its only the begining of May:(

No problems with the plugs. It was a simple valve failure.

I am going to get the loose pieces out of the boat and go put it up. I will worry about it next week.