Thanks Zoltan, that's really good to know. On Tue, May 26, 2009 at 8:04 AM, Zoltan <thewestyman@gmail.com> wrote: > One important fact I learned from Bob, was that the AMC heads have loose > keepers. The two halves meet each other to touch, thus grabbing the valve > stem, being loose, they travel up and down until they break through the > grooves and the valve free to move deeper inside and then operated by the > piston to have it pushed up. > So, the first thing I recomment to anyone I meet is to have the keepers > ground at their sides until they don't touch each other. > Bob was very happy with the AMC heads and tossed the old ones for their > metal fatigue. In his experience, it was not worth chancing all the > troubles by putting the old ones back. > He liked the better material the AMC heads are made of. > So, the keepers must be fixed first. > Zoltan >
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