[polizei]

It sounds to me like most of you are of the opinion that it's ok to wait and see how it goes. I'm comfortable with that, and I feel like there's strong enough support in this forum to justify that. I just want to reiterate one more question.

If I delay the valve guide job, what risks am I taking on? Eagledriver noted that "the danger of leaving it too long is you could break a valve due to lake of heat conduction through the guide". It sounds to me like religious monitoring of the oil level would keep this issue at bay. What are your thoughts?