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and, continuing the theme of my awesome luck... one of the rings on a valve seal broke.

I could replace it with one I have on the shelf here, but they are just a rubber cone, no rings.

if this one still holds tight to the valve and doesn't come up off the guide with the valve, would you run it, or replace it now?




I would use a peice of safety wire to hold that valve seal on. For the record, I'll bet there's nothing wrong with the valve guide clearance. I bet the noise is coming from the chevy guide plates.

When I installed my first set of Edlebrock heads, the guy on the tech line told me to run 1.5 rockers and use the cam with the lift and duration that I want. That way you don't have these issues.

Sold the 1.6 that I had and went with 1.5 crane gold rockers, all is well many years later.