I gave her the options and she chose the cheapest ones. I don’t like them but that is what she would go for. I used the tapered shims from Hughes.

As Dwayne pointed out, those shims are pedestal breakers. Also, they only half fix the issue. If the shaft needs to go up, it also needs to move away from the valve. Those shims don't do that.


The only good thing was if the heads had a bunch of money in them and it broke a pedestal, the customer was more inclined to fix them the only way I had back then which was to mill the stands off and use offset stands and shafts like should have been done in the first place.