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Labor Day Putting down your wrenches or time for MORE wrenching? 
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on the Internet for over 30 years! and not clogged down with Ads! Again, thanks! | | | | Joined: Feb 2004 Posts: 29,740 Kettle Custodian (pot stirrer) | | Kettle Custodian (pot stirrer) Joined: Feb 2004 Posts: 29,740 | That seat contact area is way too wide and too high on the valve face. The intake valve will run too cool with a wide seat, and carbon deposits will build up quickly. Intake seats need to be around .060" (1/16") wide, and just above the center of the valve face. Exhaust seats should be .090" (3/32") and also just slightly above center on the valve face. I use three angles of seating stones to alter the position and width of the seat- - - -intake angles should be 0/30/45 degrees, and exhausts are 30/45/60 degrees. I haven't lapped a valve in over 30 years- - - -I check the seat width with Prussian Blue and rely on the precision grinding of the seat to establish a seal. There are sets of hand-turned carbide seat cutters available on Ebay for adjusting valve seat width and position at very reasonable prices if you don't happen to have access to seat grinding equipment. www.ebay.com/itm/166869548116?Jerry
"It is better to be silent and be thought a fool than to speak and eliminate all doubt!" - Abraham Lincoln Cringe and wail in fear, Eloi- - - - -we Morlocks are on the hunt! There is nothing noble in being superior to your fellow man; true nobility is being superior to your former self. - Ernest Hemingway Love your enemies and drive 'em nuts!
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