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Oct 13, 2025 | CYLINDER HEADS

Installing Valve Guides at the Same Height

Continual measuring takes time and doesn’t make any money. I take a measurement from the gasket surface on diesel heads before removing the guides. I use a large diameter disc, add balancer washers, ARP washers and whatever it takes to get the guide driver the right amount of protrusion out the bottom of the large disc. Then I just go to town and install the new guides without measuring.

Randy Torvinen
Torvinen’s Machine
Menahga, MN

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