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    Valve tappet clearance

    The engine has already been sleeved. Wouldn't new valves be built differently (i.e. inexpensive and made out of better materials)? What on earth did sodium do inside a valve stem? We've put a tin can over the exhaust pipe when we winter the grain truck. Also, we have a 1947 truck with a lime bed...
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    Valve tappet clearance

    We have not had a valve head break yet. A mouse built a nest in the exhaust manifold and piled about 30 corn kernels in it. Some corn got in the cylinder and squirted out a spark plug hole when the plug was removed for diagnosis. It cracked the head (corn doesn't compress well) which was...
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    Valve tappet clearance

    Thanks, Shaun. I appreciate it.
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    Valve tappet clearance

    I have a 240 black diamond motor 6 cylinder in a 1951 grain truck. It is out of a pickup truck of that era. Could someone tell me the intake and exhaust valve tappet clearance? Thanks.
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