valve guide wear?

[ryan7662]

I took a 351w to a machine shop a while back to be rebuilt so I could throw it in my 95 gt and I'm starting to think I got shafted. The motor sat in my garage for a while after getting it back from the machine shop while I was saving up money for the rest of the rebuild. They said they rebuilt the heads but I can feel side to side play in the valve stems. When I rock the valves back and forth with the valves open slightly I can feel a defined side to side movement and see a small gap between the stem and guide. I've been told that there shouldn't be any noticable play so was I screwed over? Thanks for any input

 

[revhead347]

You got screwed. The heads need new valve guides. That's a pretty basic part of a rebuild. If the cheaped out there, they probably cheaped out elsewhere.

Kurt

 

[ryan7662]

You got screwed. The heads need new valve guides. That's a pretty basic part of a rebuild. If the cheaped out there, they probably cheaped out elsewhere.

Kurt

Thats what I figured, the motor somehow had some rust build up in the combustion chamber even though it was in my garage(probably cause the gulf of mexico is 10 miles away from me). I took the block to a different machine shop 2 weeks ago and they said the bores were distorted. The original place I took it to last year bored .030 over but apparently they screwed that up too. I took it to a more respectable machine shop in bay city this time and they had to bore it to .060 over to straighten the bores. They looked at my heads and said they needed a valve job and new vlave guides which didn't make sense because the motor only had 2 hours run time on it since being supposedly rebuilt last year. Screw it I'm just gonna get a set of reman heads on ebay for $300 or pay 700 for a set of rhs or windsor sr. heads. I'm about pissed off enough to pay the dude that didi the original machining a visit and kick his ass. Dude charged me $770 to recondition the block and heads.

Thanks again Kurt you confirmed my suspicions