<VV> Broken Valve Guides
Tony Underwood
tonyu at roava.net
Thu Jun 7 19:33:40 EDT 2007
At 12:11 PM 6/7/2007, Ron wrote:
>I have a salvageable (?) 102 head that has three of the valve guides
>broken off roughly flush with the outer face. I can only presume
>that they were broken in some attempted removal operation. The head
>is somewhat weathered but not pitted. Is it worth trying to remove
>the guides and if so, how?
A guide removal pilot and a hammer does the trick. I've taken
guides out like this (iron ones) with nary an issue.
It *does* take a serious wack. You won't tap them out. I use a
rock hammer with an integral shaft/handle, swift smack, usually two
wacks and the guide is out. The pilot knocks them out clean enough
to re-use if you so desire.
tony..
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