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Old 08-28-2008, 01:01 PM   #1 (permalink)
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reaming for valve gudes bushings?

can I install valve guide bushing using a piloted reamer and drill or should it be left to A machine shop. What setup does a machine shop use?
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you should do all guide work in a head shop or end mill. running the reamers by hand or with to much pressure will distort the guide, and will not being straight with the seat.
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What Itaylor said. Installing guides has to be done in an automotive machine shop. In the truck shop I worked in, we had a high-end valve grind setup with the correct reamers to ream sloppy guides very accurately, however then you had to have all new valves with oversize stems. But when it came to drilling out and installing new guides, the heads had to go to a machine shop with the proper equipment.
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