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1981 244DL, B21A Valve Stem Seals and Cushions Question 200 1981

posted by  Rule 308 on  Tue Apr 19 19:25 CST 2005
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Well, your description of the smoking problem does sound like a pretty text book case of bad valve seals. Being caused by using the wrong gas? That one eludes me there. I can see running unleaded fuel in a car without hardened seats causing a problem, but even then it is going to take tens of thousands of miles to do so. They way I see it you do not have a great deal of options on this one; fix it yourself, pay someone to fix it, or live with it. Where do you want to spend your money? On the in the car spring compressor and not pull the head or spend the money, and more of it, on the necessary gaskets required to pull the head and send the head out for a valve job. I have no doubt you could rent a conventional valve spring tool, but you need to have the head off of it to do it. I wonder if you could rent the on the car model?

Mark






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