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Jim Sims
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Please recall that the oil film contacts from the valve stems to the valve guides are a significant cooling path for valves. Valve guide wear degrades the cooling capacity of this path and overheated valves can loose their heads dropping them into the cylinders to do mechanical grief. Jim
Old 06-09-2004, 03:08 PM
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