- 1. intake valve woes (score: 1)
- Author: Unknown
- Date: Wed, 10 Nov 2004 20:26:59 -0600
- Ok, so someone tell me WTF is going on!! PLEASE I have a smoking engine, runs well, just smokes. So I change the head gasket (used Payen AF470) but upon re-assembly, the car runs very roughly. After
- /html/spridgets/2004-11/msg00210.html (8,353 bytes)
- 2. Re: intake valve woes (score: 1)
- Author: Unknown
- Date: Wed, 10 Nov 2004 23:26:45 -0500
- Sounds like the valve seat (or the valve) is going away on you. Measure the height of the valve stem on the offending valve (with the valve fully closed) and compare it to the others. I'll bet it's "
- /html/spridgets/2004-11/msg00211.html (7,775 bytes)
- 3. Re: intake valve woes (score: 1)
- Author: Unknown
- Date: Thu, 11 Nov 2004 07:05:44 -0500
- Yup, it sounds like severe valve seat recession to me. Pull the head and have hardened valve seats installed at your friendly neighborhood machine shop. While your'e at it, try to figure out why #4 i
- /html/spridgets/2004-11/msg00218.html (8,756 bytes)
- 4. Re: intake valve woes (score: 1)
- Author: Unknown
- Date: Thu, 11 Nov 2004 12:03:20 -0600 reply-type=response with any abuse report
- I have a hard time buying into that. It only seems to change when he pulls the head. David Lieb
- /html/spridgets/2004-11/msg00219.html (7,754 bytes)
- 5. Re: intake valve woes (score: 1)
- Author: Unknown
- Date: Thu, 11 Nov 2004 12:34:03 -0600
- This head has less than 50 miles on a COMPLETE rebuild!!!
- /html/spridgets/2004-11/msg00220.html (8,413 bytes)
- 6. Re: intake valve woes (score: 1)
- Author: Unknown
- Date: Thu, 11 Nov 2004 15:36:09 -0500
- I hate to say it, but new parts can sometimes be bad.
- /html/spridgets/2004-11/msg00221.html (9,155 bytes)
- 7. Re: intake valve woes (score: 1)
- Author: Unknown
- Date: Thu, 11 Nov 2004 17:23:50 -0500
- Measure the height of the valve stem and compare it to the others - you can do it without pulling the head. Seat recession or a burned up valve are the only things I can think of that would cause the
- /html/spridgets/2004-11/msg00222.html (8,497 bytes)
- 8. Re: intake valve woes (score: 1)
- Author: Unknown
- Date: Thu, 11 Nov 2004 17:42:43 -0600 reply-type=original with any abuse report
- Ok, Cap'n Bob, since you do not like my choice in idioms, let me eschew their use long enough to express my scepticism at Chris's diagnosis. Valve recession sounds all well adn good, but if you re-r
- /html/spridgets/2004-11/msg00227.html (8,617 bytes)
- 9. Re: intake valve woes (score: 1)
- Author: Unknown
- Date: Thu, 11 Nov 2004 19:06:02 -0500
- Ok, here's what I want to guess at. Push rod in upside down? Wrong pushrod? different engines used different sizes, so when you store them, use different coffee cans like I do ;) 948 /1275 Maybe some
- /html/spridgets/2004-11/msg00232.html (9,370 bytes)
- 10. Re: intake valve woes (score: 1)
- Author: Unknown
- Date: Thu, 11 Nov 2004 16:18:06 -0800
- Awwww, I'm betting on the new rubber valve stems swelling up, growing longer and closing the adjustment. Must be allergic to the Texas oil Bman runs in the beast. Pa
- /html/spridgets/2004-11/msg00234.html (9,360 bytes)
- 11. RE: intake valve woes (score: 1)
- Author: Unknown
- Date: Thu, 11 Nov 2004 18:28:11 -0600
- Maybe you're wipin' the lobe off the cam? --Original Message-- From owner-spridgets at autox.team.net [mailto:owner-spridgets@autox.team.net] On Behalf Of Frank Clarici Sent: Thursday, November 11, 2
- /html/spridgets/2004-11/msg00237.html (9,660 bytes)
- 12. Re: intake valve woes (score: 1)
- Author: Unknown
- Date: Thu, 11 Nov 2004 19:35:44 -0500
- TOP quailty chinese rubber. They just don't make rubber trees the way they used to. -- Frank Clarici Toms River, NJ The BETTER not BIGGER Healeys http://www.exit109.com/~spritenut
- /html/spridgets/2004-11/msg00239.html (8,819 bytes)
- 13. Re: intake valve woes (score: 1)
- Author: Unknown
- Date: Thu, 11 Nov 2004 17:01:59 -0800 (PST)
- We must admit, we agree. Sorry, too easy... == Ron Soave "Race fans, I had inferred from my one trip to the Brickyard 400, fell into one of two categories: tattooed/shirtless/sewer-mouthed drunks, an
- /html/spridgets/2004-11/msg00242.html (9,164 bytes)
- 14. Re: intake valve woes (score: 1)
- Author: Unknown
- Date: Thu, 11 Nov 2004 19:29:01 -0600
- When I pull the push rods, they go into holes punched into a beer carton, and kept in the order that the came out of the engine.
- /html/spridgets/2004-11/msg00244.html (9,888 bytes)
- 15. Re: intake valve woes (score: 1)
- Author: Unknown
- Date: Thu, 11 Nov 2004 19:30:37 -0600
- Run Castrol ONLY!!! Worked 13 hours today, and another long day tomorrow. I will mess with it this weekend, and report anything conclusive I may find.. Brad
- /html/spridgets/2004-11/msg00245.html (9,871 bytes)
- 16. Re: intake valve woes (score: 1)
- Author: Unknown
- Date: Thu, 11 Nov 2004 19:31:24 -0600
- Wouldn't that give me MORE adjustment, rather than less??
- /html/spridgets/2004-11/msg00246.html (8,583 bytes)
- 17. RE: intake valve woes (score: 1)
- Author: Unknown
- Date: Thu, 11 Nov 2004 19:33:21 -0600
- Been so long since this started, I thought I'd read you kept having more Wouldn't that give me MORE adjustment, rather than less??
- /html/spridgets/2004-11/msg00247.html (8,943 bytes)
- 18. Re: intake valve woes (score: 1)
- Author: Unknown
- Date: Thu, 11 Nov 2004 20:35:08 -0500
- Aw c'mon Brad. We can't wait that long - get out there! :-) -- Original Message -- From "Brad Fornal" <toyman at digitex.net> Cc: "Paul Asgeirsson" <pasgeirsson@worldnet.att.net>; "Robert E. Shlafer"
- /html/spridgets/2004-11/msg00248.html (8,968 bytes)
- 19. Re: intake valve woes (score: 1)
- Author: Unknown
- Date: Thu, 11 Nov 2004 19:47:54 -0600
- Just in from Ed: <QUOTE> <<I am more than willing to believe there is a mechanical issue here, >> David; For the most part, AGREED. <<but I cannot accept the "valve recession" diagnosis based upon th
- /html/spridgets/2004-11/msg00250.html (9,014 bytes)
- 20. Re: intake valve woes (score: 1)
- Author: Unknown
- Date: Thu, 11 Nov 2004 21:23:21 -0600
- Well, there's yer problem! What happened to the beer?? Cheers!! Jim - homebrewer in Dodge City
- /html/spridgets/2004-11/msg00255.html (9,103 bytes)
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