Positive Valve Seals


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By petew - 19 Years Ago
First time posting on the new forum, this is very nice. Got my 55 bird on the road about a month ago and have been enjoying my 292. Even with the original tea pot carb and stock vacuum only distributor it runs like a champ, smooth as silk and great response. At idle though she lets a little blue haze out of the driver's side pipe, I've encountered this before on my FE's and found it to be a valve seal issue. The engine currently has umbrella seals and fantastic oil flow to the top of the engine. I want to replace the umbrellas with some positive seals...does anyone here have a brand or part # for seals that will work? Since the motor is a running unit, it's tough to measure the guides and the valves but what I come up with is 11/16 valve stems (.342) and .600 OD on the guides.

                                              Pete Wolff

By DANIEL TINDER - 19 Years Ago
Pete,



By "fantastic flow", do you mean your drivers side head is flooding? Is your overflow tube aimed at the pushrod hole? If you have the cross-drilled cam, restricting the DS oil feed hole under the rocker stand might be a simple fix?
By petew - 19 Years Ago
Yes it is a cross drilled cam and I do suspect that it is "over oiling" the top of the motor. The drain tubes do point into the pushrod holes on each side. When I restrict the oil to the top of my FE's I drill a .090 hole in the restrictor. What do these motors require?

It's funny that all I ever read about these motors is that they don't provide enough oil to the top, seems that when they are fresh and clean they do just fine.

By DANIEL TINDER - 19 Years Ago
Ford service letter #6005 12/23/63 says if you have cross-drilled cam & #3 slotted cam bearing to tap a tapered plug (part # B2A-6026-B) drilled 5/64" into left side head (rocker support base) oil hole.
By petew - 19 Years Ago
Dan,

     So all I need to do is put the restrictor into the driver side (left) head and nothing in the pass side ( right) head ?

                                                      Pete

By DANIEL TINDER - 19 Years Ago
Pete,



Right. Seems like I read a thorough explanation of the mechanical/oiling action of the various bearing/journal changes over the years but all I remember is, they went back to the cross-drilled cam for a short time because of reduced pressure with the grooved design (due to insert wear), and got a lot of complaints about over-oiling on the left bank.
By petew - 19 Years Ago
Thanks Dan, I'll restrict that side this week.

                                                      Pete Wolff