Posted by ih560 on May 22, 2008 at 19:41:46 from (204.118.68.33):
In Reply to: Head advice posted by Eugene Beckham on May 22, 2008 at 17:21:15:
The expensive part is not the valve train kit, more than likely for that price the machine shop is machining and installing hardened valve seats. If that is the case then the price is only a little expensive and is only slightly more than it cost when I had a tractor done about 10 years ago.
Most machine shops will not seat new valves into the old soft seats. Soft seats were never meant for unleaded gas, and over time the have " built a tolerance up" to the unleaded gas, they are "seasoned" to it in a sense. A machine shop is worried if they machine these old seats for new valves they will never last with unleaded gas.
Hope that this helps everyone see why the price is much higher than just what a valve train kit costs.
a full head reman normall costs between $350- $425 for the seats and all. Sometimes you can find a shop that will do it for around $300 but that is getting really rare.
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