[Vwdiesel] German Air Suckers

[Harmon Seaver]

   Any auto machine shop should have the proper valve seats, or you can just buy
them and do it yourself by putting the head in an oven and putting the new seats
on dry ice for awhile. Also, it is mandatory to use *new* exhaust valves when
doing any valve job on a aircooled vw. Don't just grind the old one, the valve
stems always stretch and it really ruins your day when one breaks off 2000 miles
after a total rebuild. 
   I have read somewhere tho that the valve seats used in 99.99% of the vw still
around today are all quite hard enough, and it's highly unlikely *any* are
around that haven't had the seats replaced more than once since leaded gas went
away, so it's probably a non-issue.


On Sun, Apr 11, 2004 at 09:30:28PM -0500, Brock wrote:
> Guys, when you rebuild an older air cooled, what do you do to the valve seats to run unleaded?  Replace them with something harder?  Who do you purchase them from?
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> Brock
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