I'm glad this worked out for you Phil..but i would be very carefull to be certain to
NEVER
do this with a sodium filled valve.
If you burned through the head to the sodium or cracked the stem or tore the head off exposing the sodium to atmosphere it could result in explosion, fire, serious personal injury or death.
Oh and its nice to see that the area between your intake valves and cylinders havnt been welded up.From what i understand its pretty common to have cracks in that area.My number 1 8EQ engine has the rear three on the passenger side brazed up poorly..i'll have to rework them properly when the time comes..Hopefully the number 2 engine isnt in the same state when it gets here.
I was looking at your lincoln resto pics..nice job..and i was wondering if you had or would know where to lay hands on a spare lincoln 337 bellhousing..i have the F8 bell, clutch and flywheel on the way but they may increase the overall length of the powerpack too much for the bay on my cab 13.I'd be curious to know the o.d. of the lincoln flywheel as well..
thanks in advance