How do you install valve guides?

[jwilliams81]

I am going to be replacing my valves and valve guides. I bought new split valve guides and I wasn't sure how you get them to stay up in the hole.

Can someone enlighten me?

[1930artdeco]

You hold them in with your fingers if I remember right. Then you install the spring and keeper.

Mike

[Dick Steinkamp]

If you are installing new valves, it would be a good idea to have the seats in the block ground and/or replaced. At a minimum, you need to lap in the new valves.

Fitting the new valves to obtain the proper clearance between the valve stem and the lifter is not much fun and quite time consuming (at least for me). Plus, if you grind a little too much of the stem during the fitting process, you will need to replace it with another new valve and start the process again, or try to grind the seat down to compensate.

[700rpm]

Your guides should fit firmly in the block as you get them into their proper position. Use adjustable lifters to avoid having to grind your valve stems. Read the Ford Service Bulletins for a relatively easy way to set valve clearances.

[larrys40]

Originally Posted by 1930artdeco

You hold them in with your fingers if I remember right. Then you install the spring and keeper.

Mike

Mike,
The spring itself holds them up. You can use the modern valve kit as some have indicated and use the adjustable lifters and it is much easier to obtain proper clearance rather than check and remove material from the end of the valve to gain clearance.... If you use the 1-piece guides you will have to use an air hammer to drive them in with the correct driver pilot. Not too much.... but just enough to make them about flush in the valve port.

Larry Shepard

[burner31]

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Originally Posted by jwilliams81

I am going to be replacing my valves and valve guides. I bought new split valve guides and I wasn't sure how you get them to stay up in the hole.

Can someone enlighten me?

I'm parcel to the '31 Murry myself (don't be fooled, mines all primer)
Can you post a pic of yours?

[jwilliams81]

OK, so they are just pressed in by hand and they should stay there I am gathering.

Thank you

[BILL WILLIAMSON]

Originally Posted by jwilliams81

OK, so they are just pressed in by hand and they should stay there I am gathering.

Thank you

If they fall out, use a little STICKY grease, any COLOR

[John Stone]

How about a valve guide installation tool?

[Tom Wesenberg]

Keep each pair of guide halves together.
If you throw them into a mix and match pile, good luck getting a good fit.

[BILL WILLIAMSON]

Originally Posted by Tom Wesenberg

Keep each pair of guide halves together.
If you throw them into a mix and match pile, good luck getting a good fit.

Like mixing parts from 2 PUZZLES, together---LOL
Bill Strange