<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:comic sans ms,sans-serif;font-size:small">Hi Raymond, <br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:comic sans ms,sans-serif;font-size:small">The factory specification calls for 0.0025 to 0.0015 clearance for the inlets and 0.002 to 0.001 clearance for the exhausts if you are using cast iron guides however if you are using bronze THAT WILL NOT WORK!!!<br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:comic sans ms,sans-serif;font-size:small">To be safe with bronze guides you will have to hog them out to about 0.006" clearance..which means there is really no point in replacing them.<br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:comic sans ms,sans-serif;font-size:small">I would point you to <a href="http://www.netbug.net/blogmichael/?p=384">this article</a> on my blog...been there done that...<br><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:comic sans ms,sans-serif;font-size:small">Michael S<br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:comic sans ms,sans-serif;font-size:small">BN1 #174<br></div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Fri, Mar 27, 2015 at 2:17 PM, RAYMOND SMITHSON <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:rjsmithson@shaw.ca" target="_blank">rjsmithson@shaw.ca</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div><div style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:10pt;color:#000000">I am rebuilding my 3000 cylinder head and have found the inlet valve stems have .008" clearance but the exhaust stems have only .002" clearance. Does anyone know if this is common?</div></div><br>_______________________________________________<br>
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