On 8/30/2013 8:14 AM, The Daring Dufas wrote:
On 8/29/2013 6:30 PM, Nate Nagel wrote:
On 8/27/2013 9:13 PM, The Daring Dufas wrote:
On 8/27/2013 6:39 PM, Nate Nagel wrote:
On 8/27/2013 4:58 PM, The Daring Dufas wrote:
On 8/27/2013 1:12 PM, Nate Nagel wrote:
On 8/27/2013 1:43 PM, Metspitzer wrote:
I never tried this, but the tip says if you have a stripped Phillips
screw, you can put a rubber band between the tip and the screw to
help
remove it.
Good idea?
Coarse valve grinding compound works better, if you have some handy.
nate
The supply houses were selling a squeeze tube of a grease like
compound
that had grit in it and was meant to allow a damaged Phillips head
screw
to be removed easily without the driver slipping. ^_^
TDD
That sounds like... exactly the same stuff 
Can't blame them though, as your typical FLAPS probably doesn't sell
valve grinding compound anymore as hand-lapping valves is pretty
much an
obsolete procedure. I think I picked up a little tin at an automotive
swap meet ages ago and still have most of it.
nate
I believe modern engines have hardened valve seat inserts in the heads
to resist wear since the lead additive, which would lubricate the valve
seats, has been taken out of gasoline. Of course you must have valve
seat inserts in aluminum heads but I think even iron heads need them
with today's unleaded fuels containing ethanol. I don't think good old
valve lapping compound with the rubber stoppered hand lapping tool would
work on the newfangled hardened valve seats. ^_^
TDD
Some of us still have oooooold cars!
You could chuck up your suction cup on a stick into an old eggbeater
hand drill, or even a small cordless, if you wanted to make the job go
faster
nate
I wish I had my 64 Valiant and 65 Dart with the Slant Six and automatic
transmission. I even had a full sized 63 Dodge with a 225 Slant Six and
the darn big old hunk of steel would get up and go. I also had a 64
Dodge cab over engine pickup, the pickup made on the van chassis with
the cab forward and engine between the front seats like the van. It had
a Slant Six and was a neat little truck. The vehicles were simple and
easy to work on plus they rarely quit on you leaving you stranded. All
you had to do was keep them serviced and the critters would run forever.
I miss those old crates. ^_^
TDD
Ayup... female type I dated for a while had a '69 Valiant (in the late
90's - early 2000's) and literally all the work that was done to it over
a period of about 5 years was that I rebuilt the front suspension
(bushings were dry rotted so an inspector failed it for that and tie rod
ends) she put new tires on it and once when it sat for a couple weeks I
had to replace the carb because dipping the original carb in cleaner to
clean it out revealed that the jet block was disintegrating. She never
set the valve lash and had a heavy foot so somewhere in there it got a
head rebuild. Oh, and the usual ballast resistor replacement. Other
than that it basically took gas and oil and just ran, we drove the snot
out of it. It was registered as a regular old car and passed safety
every year. Wish I knew where that car was today; I'd have bought it
off her when she was done with it, but apparently she got offers on it
all the time and just took one, and I apparently wasn't near the top of
her "favorites" list at the time.
nate