Re: Valve grinding

Posted by the tractor vet on February 01, 2006 at 07:54:20 from (4.124.82.6):

In Reply to: Valve grinding posted by Kelly C on January 31, 2006 at 21:16:17:

I went that route , Bought a real good valve grinder and seater and all the mandrel and stones and i know how to do machine work on and engine from the line boring block boring sleeve repair and all the rest of it well i had well over 800 bucks tied up in the set up and then comes the time that OH wait i need to replace the seats oh ok i"l just pop the old one out and drive a new one in wrong i did not have the equipment to cut a new counter bore for the seat and the standard set now fit to loose as far a installing guides if it is a pres fit guide not a big deal ya just have to hace the correct set of drivers not a big deal nothing that a dollar bill won"t cure so we bought them but still could not install the seats . And over time replacable seats have to be replaced as they start getting to wide and deep and on a diesel if the valve head gets to deep then the engine becomes hard starting and if you install a new seat then the valve must be set at the correct hight or if it standing out to far then it will hit the piston and then oh wait the head is warped and you have to have a TRUE STRIGHTEDGE not just and old framing square now you need a head surfacer so we got one of them and we did use them maybe 4 times a year but i still did not have a set up to cut the bore for the seats , and one day while setting in the door way of the shop taking a break i thought of just how much time i wa wasten tryen to be the mechanic and the machanic and the machinest and still not having what i needed and still having to run to a machine shop for the boring and seat instalation or having a block bored and a sleeve installed or a deck refaced or a line bore done or rods sized when a buddy of mine had the latest a greatest state of the art machine shop east of the Mississippi . He could do a head in less time then i could drink two beers and i am talken replacing all the seats all the guides and grind or i should say cut all the seats at a 3 angel and the valves were all set where they should be . And his Head surfacer was fifty time faster to set up to true a head the the one i had and in two cut it was done one rough cut and one finish cut and he had the hot tank that only took 20 min. to clean the nastest head or block where i would spend over and hour with the steam cleaner getting burnt then and nother hour with the wire bruch on the die grinder picken wire brisel out of me and still not have the ports cleaned out . So all went BYE BYE . ANd if i needed something fast i would run it up to Dick and tell him i need this now and would tell me you know where everything is at and i would DIY and the nice thing about it is he stocked ALL the parts needed for guide work and seat work and valves on hand at his shop. So lets see one hour up a couple hours there and one hour back i would have been still tryen to find parts a cleaning and the head was going back on . So Kelly find another shop as we have one of them guys around here that charges to much and if ya want it now it will be 6 months before ya see it. Well Dick had a heart problems and i had to go on the surch for someone else and now i have to drive and hour and a half but they don"t rip me off and i can no longer DIY but they do a good job .

Replies:

• Re: Valve grinding Kelly C 09:56:29 02/01/06 (1)
  • Re: Valve grinding the tractor vet 10:31:27 02/01/06 (0)
• Re: Valve grinding RustyFarmall 08:58:40 02/01/06 (1)
  • Re: Valve grinding the tractor vet 09:28:03 02/01/06 (0)

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