What are the best valve stem oil seals to get,rebuilt my engine 1500 miles ago,and the seals are p*****g oil past,the plenum was full of oil(well it wasn't full but had a lot of oil in it).It had new guides,and seals.the exhaust side was leaking to.Also ive been told can re use wrc steel head gasket and long studs,is this true.
thanks matt

 

matt lewis motorsport sells the decent ones; i "think" ford still stock them too

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will look them up now

 

http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/RS-Cosworth-Ge...item2a023a47d1

 

Theres a guy on here who swears by Viton seals, claiming to be better than the standard Ford ones.

Martin

 

All the ones i used were green,for the exhaust and inlet,and yes they were different sizes before anyone says i used the wrong ones.

 

that'll be tabetha, i have no experience of those seals but i've used the ones i've posted with excellent results

 

i shall be ordering those before the nights out,if i get no other recomendations

 

if there is oil in the plenum its difficult to see how stem seals would have caused this - may be due to split fuel pressure reg diaphram

 

fuel pressure regulator ??. I can see oil running down the stems,its easy in the exhaust port as it is wet around the guide.Its the only place where oil can get in the inlet port,apart from the turbo,and thats dry .

 

Are the valve guides ok? thats the only other thing I can think of... I sell the viton seals and never had any issues with them.

 

That's it did not mention his name in post though.

Martin

 

yeah,had new guides put in,i have ordered the ones from matt lewis,will give those a go.Any up takes on re using the wrc headgasket,will look up the viton seals though

 

have you a website

 

The make of my seals are "VICTOR REINZ",if that means anything to anyone.Can you get different height stem seals,or are they all the same.Between the top of the guide and the top of the seal there is approx a 5 mm gap.Just thinking that if the seal was to high,the thinner part of the top of the valve,would go past the seal,thus letting oil in,has anyone ever come across that

 

Victor Reinz makes very good seals, i'm surprised you are having problems

having said that, i've never used them.
sorry i cant help with the other question