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Old May 28, 2016 | 12:33 PM
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Originally Posted by Brewster
When you can't get a shim thin enough to bring your valve into spec, it's time for new valves. The seats usually hold up much longer than the valves.

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Seriously? I thought these valves where Coated, once you wear through the coating your valves are done!
Maybe I'm just crazy. ..
 
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Old May 29, 2016 | 11:43 AM
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I believe only titanium valves have the coating.
 
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Old May 30, 2016 | 11:39 PM
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So you really just run them until they are to wore to shim?
 
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Old May 31, 2016 | 09:17 PM
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Originally Posted by Matt88-8
So you really just run them until they are to wore to shim?
Correct
 
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Old Jun 1, 2016 | 01:21 PM
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Once they are wore to the shim, you replace the shim with a shorter shim and let them wear some more!
 
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