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Author: Subject: Cleaning carbon from exhaust valves
Relph

posted on 5/4/15 at 04:04 PM Reply With Quote
Cleaning carbon from exhaust valves

Hi guys,

I've got quite a lot of carbon build up on my exhaust valves and I've tried to remove it using a wire wheel but it hardly touches it.

Have you guys got any other methods of removing or dissolving carbon ?

Thanks.





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ian locostzx9rc2

posted on 5/4/15 at 04:14 PM Reply With Quote
Put valves in a drill and use very fine emery paper and wear a mask or use some egr / turbo cleaner .
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Dingz

posted on 5/4/15 at 05:13 PM Reply With Quote
Gently by hand with an old hacksaw blade





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avagolen

posted on 5/4/15 at 06:42 PM Reply With Quote
I bought a new set - quicker & easier by miles.....





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Relph

posted on 5/4/15 at 09:53 PM Reply With Quote
Cheers lads,

I put them in a drill and used some sandpaper.

Got the boring job of lapping them in tomorrow night.

Thanks.





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Mr Whippy

posted on 6/4/15 at 11:40 AM Reply With Quote
if there is a lot of valve wear and the valves are clearly old I'd recommend you just buy new ones as they'll seat so much better plus most valves are quite cheap really. I use to spend hours doing this trying to reuse as much as possible but these days just buy new valves and get a machine shop to do the initial refacing of the seats, it's like £50 plus they check the guides at the same time and then I just do the final lapping them in. The results are so much better.
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