Re: Valve Seats?
OK Guys, This is my first hand experience. No BS just what I saw and dealt with. In my 1969 351 W there were no hard seats ,one ext. valve beat its way into the water jacket. The 1953 8BA in my friends 51F1 beat the ext. seats so far down you could see the difference in valve height just looking at it and several burnt valves to boot. Now to be honest that 8BA did have aftermarket valve springs and I'm sure that played a big part in its demise . These old motors don't have much spring pressure from the factory so you might get away with it but I feel old Henry new what he was doing when he put those hard seats in until they started adding lead to our gas. Just my two cents, Tim
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