1966 Plymouth Fury 3

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Re: 1966 Plymouth Fury 3

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It's better by hand isn't it? I've always though turning them both ways gives a better deal.
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Although I have read if you've got multi angle seats you shouldn't lap them as it rounds them off into a curve and they don't seal as well.
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DodgeRover wrote: Wed Aug 10, 2022 9:45 pm Next you will be telling us you lapped them by hand with one of those sucker sticks not a cordless drill....
I have a sucker stick and on something a little less trashed- I would.

The valves had quite severe burn and had hammered a groove into the sealing faces. That would never seal, and truly the valves need to be replaced but hey, this is Cuban Pete. There'll be no such thing here.
So, I ad-hoc'd a lathe by holding my drill on my bench and filing the face back flat again. Long gone is the case hardening.

Then they lapped in. The early LA had a single angle cut.

Look at it this way, the intake valves up front were closed. The rainwater got through.

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A very fine skim shows just how badly burned these valves are.
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Taken down to flat.
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Repeat x4.

Intakes next.
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Mmm. Lovely.
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Cleaned up. I'm going to argue golf ball physics and claim the random surface texture allows high speed air to travel better because of less transitional surface shear.
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The others on this side weren't quite so bad.

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PhilA wrote: Fri Aug 12, 2022 5:20 pm
Cleaned up. I'm going to argue golf ball physics and claim the random surface texture allows high speed air to travel better because of less transitional surface shear.

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Probably true.

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How much were new valves - when I bought some for my pinto they were only a couple of pounds each
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DodgeRover wrote: Fri Aug 12, 2022 10:08 pm How much were new valves - when I bought some for my pinto they were only a couple of pounds each
No idea. That's more than a couple pounds a pop I want to spend on this engine.
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Still, I managed to get the head cleaned up in prep to lap the valves in.
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Got the valves lapped in, and it got a bit late to be running the generator so I packed up and will refit the springs tomorrow.
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