Dropped valve guide

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Re: Dropped valve guide

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hunter wrote:Put it in the oven for an hour or so, and using brass drift give it hit with hammer.
Won't work, everything will expand.

Ideally you'd need to locally freeze the guide.
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Re: Dropped valve guide

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I would of given it a go to see if i could have moved it without worrying about damaging the head but ive given it to DM and hes putting it to good use, unfortunaly it wont be fixed though.
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