[PhatRedHead]

Rehashing this with an update. Brought the covers over to my brother's house who's a 100% mechanical engin-nerd. Has a stone that is perfectly flat down to .0001 or something horribly accurately flat. Low and behold one of my lowers is not flat, haven't tested the other one yet because I hadn't gotten it completely clean of old gasket and he didn't want that on the stone...can't blame him...

My other part of this is if I go with the RSR rocker arm inner shaft seals, (exhaust side only) can those be done while the motor is in the car or is this a motor drop project?

Part of me would really like to check all my torques in the motor and button up the covers (resurfaced/etc) and drive it around for the rest of the summer then possibly tear into the motor over the winter (optimistically with first kid due in early September) without doing the rocker seals. I know it'd be dumb/foolish to button it up to tear it down, but man I just want to drive it again, been over a year.