Car Doc, You want to help me
and make a living? The betrayal! :laughing:
BTW, all of the measurements I posted earlier are for the side clearance of the rings, not the ends. I'm not that much of a newbie

Not to mention, the ends wouldn't matter anyhow, as I'm replacing them and will have to grind them to fit.
Now that I know what you would do, I feel better knowing I'm doing more than that. I dropped the head by the machine shop today. They estimated a week for it to be done

(they looked swamped). Luckily it was only $20! (**** yeah!) They even talked me through removing the cylinder liners to boot.
According to them these Yanmar liners are super easy to knock out, just by using a wooden block from the underside. If that doesn't work, I'll make a tool similar to the homemade one linked to earlier. I wanted to have them machine the bottom of the head, too, but they would have to remove the exhaust manifold, and I don't want to open that Pandora's Box by messing with those manifold bolts. They said they would mark up any high/low spots for me to hand sand, which was awesome of them.
Now I'm just waiting for everything to come back to me, parts and the head. I still want to have the injectors pop tested, but seeing as those are on the head still, that'll be next week.
The tough part is over.. now I just need to reassemble the thing. Until then, I can spend some time fixing the alternator bolt which snapped trying to loosen. If that is the worst error in this rebuild, I'll be very very happy.