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Old 01-18-2010, 05:58 PM
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Default how's my valve train look?
pulled a valve cover off the other day, just for the hell of it. realized i don't really know what it should look like. so here it is at about 175K miles.


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Old 01-18-2010, 06:00 PM
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as long as there arent any broken valve springs or bent rockers it should be fine...
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looks normal
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it looks brown
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Old 01-18-2010, 06:48 PM
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Looks aight to me
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Looks like the oil has been changed regularly, no sludge build up, nice
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lookin good!
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Old 01-19-2010, 09:20 AM
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Looks good to me. Just has a little oil staining which is normal.
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you use quaker state?
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