Two tools will help you here - one is a bounce spring, the other is a scriber tool (Goodson sells one) that rides on the pilot and will let you scribe a line around the seat to establish what you're aiming for. Setting it to the middle of the 45, scribing that, hitting the top and bottom cuts until they are almost touching the scribe line, and then kissing the 45 to set seat width will GREATLY speed this up. EDIT - tool is SST-375, if your pilots aren't .375 top the hole can be reamed to another size.
The bounce spring really helps keep out chatter and stone damage on the 60, for sure. You could make the scriber easily but for 40 bucks, it's a no-brainer.@@EngineKrahnicles
I dont understand how you are able to setup and level an inline head in your VGS, but you cant level a canted valve? it is the same process with the transfer level.
Not quite. You have to tilt the spindle for a canted valve. It's not hard to do, but quite honestly, I don't know how yet. Just havn't had a reason to do it yet. Only time I've seen it is this head and the gen 5 LS heads. Someday, I'll have to learn how.
Nice work Noah.
Have a great day.
Two tools will help you here - one is a bounce spring, the other is a scriber tool (Goodson sells one) that rides on the pilot and will let you scribe a line around the seat to establish what you're aiming for. Setting it to the middle of the 45, scribing that, hitting the top and bottom cuts until they are almost touching the scribe line, and then kissing the 45 to set seat width will GREATLY speed this up. EDIT - tool is SST-375, if your pilots aren't .375 top the hole can be reamed to another size.
Thanks for the tips! I have bounce springs, but I forgot to use it. Did not know about the scribe tool. I'll look it up
The bounce spring really helps keep out chatter and stone damage on the 60, for sure. You could make the scriber easily but for 40 bucks, it's a no-brainer.@@EngineKrahnicles
I dont understand how you are able to setup and level an inline head in your VGS, but you cant level a canted valve? it is the same process with the transfer level.
Not quite. You have to tilt the spindle for a canted valve. It's not hard to do, but quite honestly, I don't know how yet. Just havn't had a reason to do it yet. Only time I've seen it is this head and the gen 5 LS heads. Someday, I'll have to learn how.
So even on the online heads, you aren’t leveling the spindle to the pilot? Same process, you just have to tilt the spindle at more of an angle.
@@scotts439 because non canted valves are perfectly perpendicular with the head surface.
Perfectly perpendicular to head surface???? You may want to rethink that one.