Cascade Crew

flea · Posted: Sun Mar 31, 2013 10:02 am Post subject: Valve guide removal.

I need the top secret recipe for removing the valve guides from a 1929 Model A.

This would no doubt be easier if everything wasn't the same shade of 84 year old rust, and if I could actually see individual parts.

Can they be tapped out from the top down? Is there anything holding them in place other than 84 year old rust? is there a keeper rusted in there someplace?

Valves and springs are out, just need the guides evicted.

charlie6178 · Posted: Mon Apr 01, 2013 4:54 pm Post subject:

if it's original and unmolested it should have a 2 piece valve guide in it, and they can be a nightmare to get out! do you have new guides for it?? and or new valves??? if you are doing new valves and you have new guides you can cut the tip of the valve off, weld a nut to the seal grove of the guide, and pull on it with a heavy slide hammer. if not there is an atattchment for a snap on 3 jaw to pull the guides with that too. i have done them both ways, both work.

flea · Posted: Tue Apr 02, 2013 6:18 am Post subject:

Cool, that's exactly what I was looking for. They do just slide out though correct? I was thinking about a piece of pipe or steel rod to tap in pushing them out from the top downward.
It will be stripped down to the block, resurfaced, checked for cracks and rebuilt.

91RSVert · Posted: Tue Apr 02, 2013 9:32 am Post subject:

If you dont mind, post some pictures of the whole project. Ive only seen them as complete trash buckets, or fully fixed.

aaron_sK · Posted: Tue Apr 02, 2013 10:16 am Post subject:

Twilightoptics · Posted: Tue Apr 02, 2013 11:06 am Post subject:

Just back into it woth your car

Dewey316 · Posted: Tue Apr 02, 2013 11:16 am Post subject:

flea · Posted: Tue Apr 02, 2013 11:31 am Post subject:

Run over one little mailbox...

Besides that's how I was gonna get the cam out.

flea · Posted: Tue Apr 02, 2013 11:33 am Post subject:

But yes I can post a pic...promise its not what you're thinking

And hopefully it will look like this soon.

See, not what you thought.

91RSVert · Posted: Wed Apr 03, 2013 6:40 am Post subject:

Your correct, I thought you were restoring a car. I saw someone post on here a few months back they had a really old car. Thought it was you.

So your using a old car engine in a kit airplane? Or am I even off on that?

flea · Posted: Wed Apr 03, 2013 10:08 am Post subject:

Only off in so far as its not a kit. It's plans built. They first flew in 31 I think, using model A for power. So there it is.

charlie6178 · Posted: Wed Apr 03, 2013 2:19 pm Post subject:

aaron_sK · Posted: Wed Apr 03, 2013 3:33 pm Post subject:

Finding disappointment in the fact that none of his projects have yet resulted in a horrible crash-and-explosion-related death, flea has now decided to up the ante. Surprised

91RSVert · Posted: Wed Apr 03, 2013 4:01 pm Post subject:

flea · Posted: Wed Apr 03, 2013 9:08 pm Post subject:

flea · Posted: Wed Apr 03, 2013 9:09 pm Post subject:

aaron_sK · Posted: Wed Apr 03, 2013 9:13 pm Post subject:

I was not previously aware of the hemlock. That choice does not say "caution" to me.

Hem splits and blows out and smells like poo when you cut it. Laughing

RSFreak · Posted: Wed Apr 03, 2013 10:02 pm Post subject:

You are a brave man! I would never fly in something I built! Shocked

91RSVert · Posted: Thu Apr 04, 2013 2:37 am Post subject:

flea · Posted: Thu Apr 04, 2013 4:13 am Post subject: