blue smoke after engine rebuild, advice please.

[Quattro Dan.]

How do you do the guides as i have been told its a case of heating anc cooling and lots of money to get it done...?

I was expecting it to be very arkward but i drove the old ones out with a punch that fitted in the middle of the guide and the punch's shoulders contacted the guide.

Drove the new guides in with a deep 10 mm socket the contacted with the shoulder of the new valve guides, all that was needed was a smear of oil on each. No heat or cooling required, i may have been lucky? Checked each valve in the guides for clearence and all is well.

[Christophski]

Ah cool... May be worth thinking about doing then... How much are the guides?

[JP]

Guides are around 3.80+vat each. Normally you'd only change exhausts. Also cool the guides and heat the head to make life easy.

I normally charge £12.50 per guide supplied old one removed new one fitted and the seat cut true to the new guide. This way when you come to lapping them in you don't have to spend 10min on each one in hope to make them seal.

It is however considered a DIY job with the correct punches/drives and patience in lapping them in.

[Quattro Dan.]

Guides are around 3.80+vat each. Normally you'd only change exhausts. Also cool the guides and heat the head to make life easy.

I normally charge £12.50 per guide supplied old one removed new one fitted and the seat cut true to the new guide. This way when you come to lapping them in you don't have to spend 10min on each one in hope to make them seal.

It is however considered a DIY job with the correct punches/drives and patience in lapping them in.

I would have used you straight away if you were a bit closer JP, but for this old smoker i will give it a go.

[Christophski]

Are they in the head or do you need the block. Reason being I may get you to do them jp as you are local to me

[Christophski]

Sorry, seeing as you are local and my friend is doing the other things for me so car won't be moveable and this isnt a full rebuild type of thing...

[europeanme]

Just got to lap the valves in, any advice on this is appreciated as i have never done it before, can i use the sucker tool on my cordless drill? also what paste should i use?

Cheers, Dan.

for the record Dan, I lapped the valves in using the roughing paste with the tool in a cordless drill but when I started using the fine paste, I finished it all by hand....tedious it is but gets the right results me thinks....

good luck chap....and make sure the radio is on or something to take your mind off it!

Mike

[Quattro Dan.]

for the record Dan, I lapped the valves in using the roughing paste with the tool in a cordless drill but when I started using the fine paste, I finished it all by hand....tedious it is but gets the right results me thinks....

good luck chap....and make sure the radio is on or something to take your mind off it!

Mike

Thanks, im sure it will be worth it in the end. Even with said blue smoke on over run it went really well around Castle Combe on sat, VW Audi driver track day.

Dan.

[JP]

Guides are in the head and are done with it of the car

[Christophski]

You my friend could end up with a head coming your way soon. I will send you a pm when I get closer to doing it. Cheers JP