Thank you all for your responses. I didn't know about Netparcel. I'll have to check that out. The first problem is Canada does not seem to care much how or why an item comes across the border, except there is a great opportunity to tax the blazes out of it... or not. There doesn't seem to be any rhyme or reason except they get too busy to tax all of it.
The bigger problem is I am overwhelmed, most of the time. I decided some time ago I would only do the machine work, as that was already a lot to do. I try to get it all done, but it's not always possible.
GretaTUNEBerg, I don't think it will do much good to talk to the machine shop, as stripping teeth off of a belt indicates to me a very old belt. I suppose anything can happen, but I've never seen a belt strip for any other reason. I suppose a very poor off-brand name belt could do that... maybe.
It could be the belt can jump forward, wreck lifters, backward and wreck some more and as lucky as all this appears, maybe it got even crazier and ended up ON timing. Hard to guess, but you can't expect a belt with stripped teeth to work.
I can give you the measurements that should be correct for valve projection and valve stem height. The Bentley book includes those. Honestly, some of the measurements they use are overkill, as they have an .008" difference in valve stem height between the exhaust and intake, when the cam follower can allow for almost .060". Most don't know how much allowance there is in the lifters. I try to minimize the preload, not maximize it.
That said, you could have mashed a lifter set because the valve seats were cut way too much, would be my only other suspicion. That would increase the valve stem height, which would compress the cam followers. There is a lot of room for the lifters to compress, but they do have their limit.
Greta, If you like, PM or text my cell. Maybe I can help.
