My 440 rebuild thread

Well, here's one potential problem I found after pulling the heads. When I dropped them off at the machine shop, I noticed the #7 exhaust spring had part of the inner spring sticking out like this
View attachment 1715819151 I took this picture while waiting to speak with the machinist, but then forgot to point this out to him. Does this look like a problem?
Well yea, that’s a problem. And likely indicative of more valvetrain issues you’ll find.