I'm a few stages behind but i decided to tap the thread further down the hole. I use one of those endoscopes, that link up to the laptop, just to see what was going on down the hole. The thread only goes down half way, so I just used a set of m10 1.5 taps to take the thread down lower. Seems to have done the job.
Would like to machine the heads nut seats by a few mm, just on the two under the left cam wheels. That costs money though and you have to rely on some one else and wait for them.