Recent content by Peva

I think you had a brain fart, 1.5mm = 0.060"

I was only meaning that if you put the step washer in to retain the valve guide, the bottom end of the washer acts as a shim for the spring. Depending on how thick you make that inadvertent-new-spring-shim part of the washer, you could be over-compressing the spring, which may shorten it's life...

I was getting ready to show my ignorance and ask what "14.7" had to do with anything - tried to guess what it might be. Started thinking: Standard ambient air pressure is 14.7 psi. But that can't be it. Suddenly the words "stoichiometric" and "O2 sensors" popped info my mind from years ago -...

That step washer is a clean solution. I was wondering if one or both ends of the spring should be ground shorter to equal the thickness of the part of the washer that it's resting on so the spring is compressed as designed. Or is that over-thinking it?