MadBill wrote:The way that seal is beat up looks like it came off the guide and then was trashed by the inner spring. Surely when you removed the spring the seal was floating around loose rather than fitted over and bottomed out correctly on the guide?
Your assumption is correct sir. The seal remnants were not still on the guide. I am currently in the process of dropping the pan to roll out the bearings, because some pieces of the seals surely made it to the pan. I'm hoping that between the pump pick up strainer and oil filter on this faux dry sump system, hard parts didn't go through the engine.
Here's a pic of the locators. I really don't know what to make of the different wear patterns....
Still waiting on UPS, dangit.... I really need to know what shape the springs are in. Regardless, at this point I'm pretty convinced the exh springs went bonkers and pulled the seals off the guides, then beat the crap out of them. The intake seals took a good deal of effort to remove with channel locks, so I'm pretty confident I installed them all correctly.... As RW has said several times, the system is not happy. The exh side more unhappy because of the added valve weight than the intake valves, and it didn't help, probably, that I set the exh side up 0.0010" higher than the intake side.