Interesting crack repair video.....

[Eagle43]

My Permatex Sleeve Retainer came today and I installed the hardened valve seat with this stuff. Tomorrow I plan to grind and lap the valve and put everything back together. Hopefully this seat will stay in place. It seemed to go in there pretty snug.

The first picture shows the installed seat. I've already beveled the inside a bit using my wood lathe. The second picture shows the inside of cylinder #3 which looks good. The third picture shows cylinder #2, the problem one. This one had the deepest crack in the cylinder wall with some distortion and gave me the most trouble cleaning up and trueing the cylinder wall without putting in a sleeve which I'm not capable of doing. The yellow spot is where I ground out a bit too much. I know it's not perfect but I hope things hold together and I get enough compression in this cylinder. Hope to drive the truck this weekend.