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Do you think I might need new valve guides?

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    Posted: Oct/16/2020 at 5:14pm
1958? L-head.

I can't believe this engine ran long enough to wear away this much metal. OK the exhaust would just fill the crankcase (understatement) but how did it have any intake vacuum at all?!

Unbelievable. Three of them cracked off a tip where the metal *wore through*.

The thing is, the bores were standard ("0 under") the cyls 3, 4 thousandths of taper (could be more, was a quick check of rusty cylinders). Bearings were shot, looks like water in the oil (grey goo).

The engine arrived disassembled. At first I thought the valves were the wrong ones; too loose in the guides, and a 195.6 OHV valve fit in more than one of the guides!!










The cam profile is so sharp you can almost cut your finger.

Oh boy I wonder how sensible a project this is. They're not very good motors! lol.



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I assume one set idles speed by how tight the valve (side) cover is screwed down? And in Project Farm style, "Can a car idle on oil fumes..., let's find out." Big smile

Just invert the guide to wear on the other side, reinstall and wind string around the valve stem for control. LOL


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Originally posted by wittsend wittsend wrote:

I assume one set idles speed by how tight the valve (side) cover is screwed down? And in Project Farm style, "Can a car idle on oil fumes..., let's find out." Big smile

Just invert the guide to wear on the other side, reinstall and wind string around the valve stem for control. LOL

I like your thinking! 

Idling on your own oil fumes could re-fill the crankcase too!



With new valve guides costly nearly three dollars fifty, I may consider your excellent scientifical suggestion.

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Is it possible that the valves have 11/32 stems in 3/8 guides? Dr. Faucci probably couldn't explain how the guides could wear like in the pictures.
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I'm gonna email the guy who gave me the engine. It is a little too much. They're the skinny L-head valves. I have a couple OHV valves. They are identical except for the stem diameter, all are by the book.

It is a mystery how such I thing could run. Could idle, more specifically. 


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Maybe the motor had a turbo and the guides are a form of boost control. Sort of an individualized  wastegate. LOL

Seriously though, a flat head would not get the guide side loads that a OHV engine gets from the fulcruming rocker. So it makes the egg shaped guide even more worn that one should think it would have.

My daily drive Mazda has the bucket lifters (should be called plungers being they move downward) and I'd think they go a long way to, one, reducing valve side loads, and two, shielding the guide from excessive oil. Likely that and modern oils allow cars to go 200,000-300,000 miles when given proper care.
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yeah, there is actually a lifter pushing up on the valve in the usual way, from the bottom up. There must be more to it than just wear. I just got back from a weekend event and haven't written Andy yet.  
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