If the guide is raised up, it is due to repeat overheating, and the head will need to be replaced. <----------- I don't know what this means if it's raised up isn't it like secured with bolts or screws is there a different way you could say this cuz it doesn't make any sense to me.
It is not the push guide plate it is the actual valve guides that Auto Doc is posting about.
Okay the valve guides are the rectangular pieces of plastic I'm definitely going to replace those because it comes with a new guide plate I think it's called but it's a metal plate and then it comes with those plastic inserts I'm very familiar with those things I just never saw them broken but having said that what is he trying to tell me about those things make sure I install them I just don't get it.
Okay thanks for this explanation I'm reading it + you know for me since I'm not a mechanic I call them hockey pucks for little tiny hockey pucks I think that's what you're talking about and they're metal and I just bought two of them a couple weeks ago. I can only tell you when I took the valve cover off I think one ended up dropping into the valve cover but they're both okay from what I can tell and my apologies if I'm talking about the wrong thing.
The "hockey pucks" you are referring to are the valve wear tip caps, not the valve guide I am referring to. I am not sure we are talking about the same thing here.
I think you said in an earlier post take a look at the video from pterodactyl, if I spelled it wrong I know exactly who you mean.
Also where he says "exhaust valve" I think thats the intake valve, not that it matters but I have found alot of folks confused by this.
Knowing the intake valve versus the exhaust valve, does matter. When the valve guide doesn’t allow the valve to operate correctly and is at an abnormal height, that is called a pushed valve guide. Punctuation correctly used versus one giant run on sentence also matters. Don’t sweat the small stuff, it is all small stuff.