Morris Minor Owners Club

Probably takes a year or two to learn, but is sizing/fitting your own valves feasible? I suppose you need a good solid drill stand with a milling table. Anybody come across a good book on the subject?

Do you mean valves or valve guides?

If you try and do either without the correct tools you have a high chance of ruining the head.
Even if you just intend to fit new valve guides you need to have the seats ground/machined concentric to the valve guide.
IMHO it is better to let the machine shop do the job and take the risk.

Bill_qaz wrote: ↑Wed May 08, 2024 4:47 pm Do you mean valves or valve guides?

Perhaps lapping your own valves in would be step 1. Actually done that but not for some years.
Doing your own guides would be next I think. And machining for larger valves might come after that?
Just toying with the idea at the mo (got an awful lot of time on my hands ).

philthehill wrote: ↑Wed May 08, 2024 6:06 pm IMHO it is better to let the machine shop do the job and take the risk.

I'm lucky enough to have a nearby machine shop. Got a bottom end being done there now. And I'll prob. get exhaust valve seats done there too. He mostly does modern cars now but when I said it was a 1100 A series he said he'd got three of those round the back if we found we needed some bits for the build