<VV> Broken Valve Guides

[Tony Underwood]

At 12:11 PM 6/7/2007, Ron wrote:
>I have a salvageable (?) 102 head that has three of the valve guides 
>broken off roughly flush with the outer face.  I can only presume 
>that they were broken in some attempted removal operation.  The head 
>is somewhat weathered but not pitted.  Is it worth trying to remove 
>the guides and if so, how?



A guide removal pilot and a hammer does the trick.        I've taken 
guides out like this (iron ones) with nary an issue.


It *does* take a serious wack.    You won't tap them out.     I use a 
rock hammer with an integral shaft/handle, swift smack, usually two 
wacks and the guide is out.    The pilot knocks them out clean enough 
to re-use if you so desire.



tony..