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Originally Posted by undy
Pull your valve covers and grab the keeper end of the valve stem via the spring retainer. With steady pressure using channel locks attempt to move the valve stem back and forth perpindicular to the valve. If you have severe valve guide wear you will see radial movement in the valve stem/retainer. If that's the case then it's time to pull the heads for a valve job or better yet, a set of new Eboks.. You can then take a look at the ring wear pattern on the cross-hatch in the cylinders. That also will give you an indication of how well the rings seated.
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But Dave, this is pretty much a new engine -- it's only got a little over a thousand miles on it and I'm sure it's got new heads, probably Edel., and he's had an
oil problem since the day it fired up.
ZOERA-SC7XX -- if you want me to post the Ford 428 service manual pages on pulling the intake manifold I will. It's pretty intuitive; the hardest part is lifting it off once you have everything unbolted (and that's with aluminum, with iron you've got to use a lift unless you're Barry R., whom I'm told can get dead lift an iron manifold while bending over like an inverted 'L' )
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