REFLECTOR:Checking valve guides ...

[Scott]

I thought you could do that by dropping the valve into the cylinder and 
then pulling the stem out through the spark plug hole.  Cleaning and 
measuring, then re-install valve using rope to push it back up through the 
guide?

Scott

At 10:44 PM 3/14/2004, you wrote:
>I've got a problem for some of you Lyc doctors ....
>
>I've been hearing off and on about checking valve guides on Lycs
>for too much or too little clearance - either ready to seize or
>burning oil.  I'm doing my annual now and thought I'd check the
>guides on my angle valve IO-360.  Went to the local IA and he
>said that if he checks them at all, it's pull the jug, remove
>the valve and mic it.  Seemed a little much since I thought what
>I'd been hearing involved pulling the spring, wiggling the stem
>and estimating the severity of the lash problem.
>
>Is the "quick and dirty" check, I've described common practice?
>If so, how exactly, does one perform the inspection?  If not,
>how common is pulling the jugs, field stripping them and mic-ing
>the guides?  Do I need to bother at all with 500 hrs on the
>engine and two jugs with 100 and 200 hrs on them?
>
>Need some straight answers .... Jim S.
>
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