Appreciate the thank-you, David, but think you still missed a bit of my
"wisdom"............all 8 O-rings are supposed to be used. Since, as I said,
they are there to stop oil running down the guides when the engine is at
rest, rather than being sucked in when the intake valve is open, they must
be placed in both intake and exhaust valve retainers.
Lawrie
-----Original Message-----
From: David Lynes <cdlynes@bellsouth.net>
To: MGList <mgs@autox.team.net>
Date: Tuesday, February 16, 1999 7:26 PM
Subject: Re: Valve stem seals
>Now it makes sense! My machine shop couldn't figure how the little
>O-rings could possibly do anything. But I insisted they put them on (all
>8 like the diagram in the book, now I know should have been just the
>intake) Thanks again, Lawrie. I wish I had had the collected wisdom of
>the list years ago.
>
>David Lynes
>
>Lawrie Alexander wrote:
>>
>> later cars had just the rubber o-rings placed in the bottoms of the
>> valve spring retainers to prevent oil that puddled on the top of
>> the retainer from running down the crack between the two collets
>> and then down the guide.
>>
>
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