[DeTomaso] Have you touched your valves lately?

[Charles McCall]

Here are my heads... 
http://www.powerheads.com/aussieheads.html

Hardened exhaust seats
I thought I asked about them when I bought them... 


Charles McCall
1985 DeTomaso Pantera GT5-S #9375
"Raising Pantera Awareness across Europe"
http://members.aol.com/PanteraGT5S1985/


-----Mensaje original-----
De: Charles McCall [mailto:CharlesMcCall at gmail.com] 
Enviado el: domingo, 22 de junio de 2008 21:19
Para: 'Thomas Tornblom'
CC: 'detomaso at realbig.com'
Asunto: RE: [DeTomaso] Have you touched your valves lately?

Um, hadn't thought of that. Thanks :-(

Is that a problem with Aussie heads? I thought they had a higher nickel
content or something

Charles McCall
1985 DeTomaso Pantera GT5-S #9375
"Raising Pantera Awareness across Europe"
http://members.aol.com/PanteraGT5S1985/


-----Mensaje original-----
De: Thomas Tornblom [mailto:Thomas.Tornblom at hax.se] 
Enviado el: domingo, 22 de junio de 2008 21:16
Para: Charles McCall
CC: detomaso at realbig.com
Asunto: Re: [DeTomaso] Have you touched your valves lately?

Valve lash decreases when the valves sink into the seats...

Charles McCall skrev:
> Hi all,
> 
> 
> Interesting that 100% of the valves were way too tight. I brought the car
to
> a trusted shop that has just been certified by Porsche, which is a long
and
> complicated process. So I figured that if they satisfied Porsche with
their
> quality, they could probably adjust some valves on a Cleveland! I don't
know
> if they converted inches to metric wrong and used the wrong feeler gauge
or
> what happened. the lash was all completely consistent, but consistently
too
> tight! So I ended up adjusting all 16 valves. 
> 

Thomas