Check those valve guides quickly, Pop check! Tech tip

An easy at home way to quickly check the general condition of a valve guide and valve stem.
*no seals or oil on valves stem*

[THEBOILEDONE]

You can't find better or more informative videos than cutters

[dprintingdentist]

Just wanted to say, your video was very informative. The popping sound that the valve makes helped me out! My intake made the nice pop and the exhaust did not. Got the new valve guide in and it makes the pop noise.

[scottsarver]

Really appreciate you posting this. Have to check valve guides and had no idea how other than a wiggle test. Thanks!

[williamstidham]

No pop, it’s a flop, That’s a lot of wiggle In those 2 valves, I hope mine has a good vacuum on the valves and no wiggles, Great true information, Thanks 😊

[gtpsleeper]

Thanks so much for this video explanation of a quick valve guide check method!

[julianlangdon]

Super video thanks, that Head's very different to my Volkswagen BMD but the principles are clear & relevant

[alifrosli]

very good idea on testing the condition of the valve guide

[lozl]

What a fantastic, informative video. Really useful, many thanks

[rchydrozz]

Instead of pulling it out fast. You can spray the valve stem with a little WD40, insert it, put you finger over the hole as you did and slightly pull the valve out. You should feel a little suction on your finger.

[Turtle-RR]

This helped my yz250f valve situation thank you

[crxtodd]

Nice! This is a really good idea. Thanks for sharing it.

[elliotronald]

Thank you so much really makes sense to me good Valve guide good sound

[Ryan_]

How can someone check for leaky valve guides if the guide housing is cracked?? Top of spring seat location of the neck.
I know they’re pressed in but can it leak oil into the chamber/port??

[BlueCollarCriminal]

This method baffles me I have some play in my guides but they all still pop from what I can tell. Sill have to remove a couple seals but the ones I notice have the most play still pop. Non of them are nearly as bad as the ones in the video as far as play so maybe that’s why I’m not noticing much. The exhaust valves make a quieter pop noise compared to the intake side with the head I’m working on I wonder if that means just the exhaust side ones need replacing but I’ll probably just replace them all.

[bk-ygyw]

Would worn valve guide's burn oil when starting up and acceleration from a dead stop ? My stupid self put worn out 882 heads on my sbc 355 new aluminum heads are coming tomorrow compression is within 10% off each other 140 and 130 psi

[markopolo]

Are you supposed to do this with oil on the stems or dry?

[natedog]

Is it typically expensive to replace valve guides?

[qazisajid]

My car smokes only at cold start.and it now consume oil there is a blue smoke on cold start at 2000+ rpm what would be the problem

[billbonu]

Good Lord you talk a lot to say something that could have been said in like 30 seconds