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Aug 11, 2013 | 04:24 PM

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03TORCHREDZ

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Comp valve stem seal issues

About a month ago car started smoking pretty bad at idle and had a blueish color to it. I popped off both valve covers and noticed on cylinder 3 the seal had slid up. Got that fixed and everything was good for a week and it started to do it again. This time it was cylenders 4, 6, & 8. These are the comp valve stem seals and I know they were seated right. Anybody else have problems with these.

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Aug 11, 2013 | 06:01 PM

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I recall reading on the LS1 site about a similar situation where the culprit was the inner spring of a dual spring set pulling the seal up.

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Aug 11, 2013 | 06:23 PM

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Are you using valve springs that don't allow you to use the OEM valve guide seals?

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Aug 11, 2013 | 06:29 PM

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Are you using valve springs that don't allow you to use the OEM valve guide seals?

No, they are single springs. I was thinking of going back to the stock ones.

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No, they are single springs. I was thinking of going back to the stock ones.

I would go back to OEM seals then ... they work great IMO.

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