21 March 2021 Only got in the garage on Sunday afternoon, food shopping, potato planting and other jobs taking up Saturday. Had to go and buy another valve lapping tool because I can't find the safe place I put the other one! Lapped in the valves and then cleaned up the head and valves with wipes and plenty of brake cleaner. Fitted the new oil stem seals from my engine gasket set, a bit of lubrication and they can be pushed into position by hand. A deep 10mm socket sits nicely on the shoulders. Lubricated the valve stems and put them back into the head then took and each spring in turn fitted them to the head with the collets. This was a fiddly task and took the best part of 3 hours. The first few took the longest. I put an old rubber seal under the valve to stop it moving then slipped the spring over, ensuring it was the right way up with the upper spring seat on top. Then the fiddly task of compressing the spring and fitting the 2 tiny keepers in place. I found the most successful method was to put a bit of grease on the inside of the keeper and then use a little more grease on a small screwdriver which helps it to stick. Then manoeuvre it into place on the valve and repeat with the other keeper and release the spring. In reality it is a lot of fiddling about trying to get the keepers in the right position while trying to keep the spring compressed enough. It took several attempts for each valve but finally all 16 valves were done. I wiped off the excess grease and gave them all a good look over to make sure I was happy with everything. I put the new head dowels in place and checked the head gasket over to make sure it matched the old one. At first glance it seemed to be wrong as several of the waterways were sealed off by the head gasket but upon comparison with the old one it appears this is correct.
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