Help Cost for a Value job and do I need it ?

[UBNOXS1]

Hello So I got my heads off and the rockers have a funny look to them like a red stuff on them. I well upload a pic my. My friend told me to get them shaved. But them my other friend said maybe I sure get a value job as well. The engine was rebuilt about 14 years ago. And my brother was a hard driver on the car. I had one place tell me 280 for both heads. Is that a good cost ?

What is the cost I would be looking at for value job?
Do I really need a Value Job?

 

[jefflock]

I'm wondering about the 280 for both heads. I bet it doesn't include parts. As far as the valve job. Most of the time when you put a fresh valve job against an older set of rings your motor will start using oil. Shaving them?? It would help to know what motor and heads you have. Also what are your intentions with it? Daily driver, weekend's only or drag only?

 

[GTGrinly]

Why did you take them off in the first place???

 

[RustyRatRod]

It varies depending what part of the country you're in. Some places are very expensive while others are not. I would be wary of a 280 buck valve job. If that engine was run hard for 14 years, the guides and seats are probably not in stellar condition. In order to have a good seat ground, or even to lap in a new seat, the guide must be in superior condition. Stay away from guide knurlling. This is a process that threads the guide to raise the inside diameter surface to tighter than nominal tolerances and then reamed out to the proper size. It does not last long at all. Probably not much past ring break in. It is a quick fix. To properly have the heads rebuilt including new guides and seats with all new valves and springs including cleaning, magnafluxing and refacing will easily bump close to $1000.00 and possibly more. Also add in extras such as a multi angle competition valve job and you're there.

 

[stroked 340]

$280.00 for a valve job seems extremly low..then again $1000.00 into a set of steel heads not if my life depended on it...:iconbigg::iconbigg:

 

[moper]

If you can post clear pics of the chamber side and valve cover side that might help. Hard to say without seeing them but I'd run from a $280 valve job.

 

[UBNOXS1]

(jefflock) I think the heads are the stock ones its a 318. I mean resurfacing by shaving them sorry. Daily driver maybe weekend only. I want to keep For now I trying to restore it and make it little faster and bit louder. Nothing crazy.

(GTGrinly) I took them off because the head gasket blow and the car was sitting for 5 years so I was guessing to change the other head gasket because its somewhat a part now.

 

[72bluNblu]

$280 for a valve job is about right, shop here does them for $125 a head. But that's just a valve grind, it doesn't include any new parts and only deals with the valve seats (it's not a head rebuild, just a valve job). Same place charges $40 for head surfacing, per head. If the guides are bad, that would be more too.

Not sure about you needing one though, you'd have to look at the valve seats. A resurface might not be a bad idea if you blew a head gasket, but that says nothing about the valves.

The rockers on that one head definitely need some attention though, that "red stuff" is RUST. Not good to have on the rockers, even worse if it's on the shaft. At the very least you'll need to clean up those rockers, at worst replace them. And it looks like the rocker shaft has that same rust on it, I'd replace it.

 

[stroked 340]

From those first pictures you have there the "red" stuff you see is RUST...

 

[blue73duster]

you can get a basic valve job for around that down here
I hope you plan on doing ALOT of cleaning,,thats a good bit of water and rust there