Can anyone recommend a place to get valve guides installed in the South West?

[JimS3]

Need to get some new exhaust valve guides pressed in, can anyone recommend somewhere in the South West that is good?

Last place I went to for machining was supposed to be good ruined my block

 

[Sam_]

Not far from Badger5 are you?

 

[JimS3]

Not far from Badger5 are you?

Not too far, and Bill has done some stuff in the past for me, but I thought he pushed this kind of work out?

 

[Sandra]

Not too far, and Bill has done some stuff in the past for me, but I thought he pushed this kind of work out?

Give Bill a call, if he cant do it, im sure he will know someone local who can. Best of luck. x

 

[Andrew@A.L.D]

If bill can't do it I can sort out a collection and deliver service if needed. But I'm in yorkshire if you plan to drop it off. A bit far I know.

 

[JimS3]

Cheers guys, will give Bill a call. Yorkshire is a bit far from Devon! But thanks for the offer, good to have as a backup plan.

 

[badger5]

our local guy does a decent job.
new guides, skim, pressure test

We build the heads in house

 

[JimS3]

our local guy does a decent job.
new guides, skim, pressure test

We build the heads in house

Thanks Bill, I have sent you a PM for a price.

Will build the head up myself, quite enjoy building engines, lol.

 

[Andrew@A.L.D]

our local guy does a decent job.
new guides, skim, pressure test

We build the heads in house

And he will recut the seats if he puts new guides in.

 

[JimS3]

And he will recut the seats if he puts new guides in.

Cheers,

The exhaust valves in the AEB head I'm going to build up are proper slack, never seen valves wobble around like that before!

Are the valves likely to have worn too or just the guides as they are softer?

 

[Andrew@A.L.D]

Normally it's just the guides.

 

[badger5]

And he will recut the seats if he puts new guides in.

yep. all blued up and checked and seats touched as required

 

[lol4fun]

A cheaper option would be to get the value guides scrolled, will get more life outta the head without having the risk of warping or cracking the head while heating it up and hammering(air chisel works well) out the old guides.