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Not trying to get them perfect, but just seal up better than before. I can polish them up if that will help

Here is a closeup of the #1 intake and exhaust. They all look about the same as these two.

Yes they looked kinda rounded. I will get a close up pic. as far as doing angles and whatnot. IDK how to do that! I would assume I would need a special cutting device.

I came up with this doohicky that fits the rubber suction cup. the blue stem is made from a flexible rubber filament. it sort of acts like a rubber hose so I can chuck it into the drill. Hopefully this will help. I was also reading online about lapping valves and what causes them to still...

I am thinking of maybe trying with my cordless drill on the slow setting. the suction cups will come off the stick, so I can put a short dowel in one and chuck it to my drill. I also have some jewelers rouge if that would work better.

I guess I need to get a little more evasive on the valve lapping... I made an adapter to fit my blow gun and seal up on the exhaust port on the head. (still working on one for the intake side) installed a valve, spitzed some windex on the valve face and gave it some air. I had leakage all...

Check it with an ohm meter. iirc it's a basic switch.

I saw one of you guys mentioned filling the intake/exhaust ports with fluid to test if the valves are sealing up after the lapping job. I was thinking about some way of a preliminary test without making a mess like maybe applying air pressure into the ports. I have made rubber tips for my...

iirc @Will L. had talked about this add-on. I seem to recall they might do more harm than good. your engine is running v-belts and not a serpentine belt system which is a reverse rotation. I don't think you have a worry about balanced coolant flow. both of my trucks have the serpentine...

That I would think would be fine, only thing I would also do is apply power to the fuel shut off solenoid and spin it so it's pumping some of that oil out the injector line ports making sure it's all though out the pump.

@dieselolds I ordered one of the kits you linked for the IP. are there any special tools I need? like a tool or sleeve to install the shaft umbrella seal? I saw these looking on amazon, but idk if I need one or if these are right for my IP...

I found a set of the o-ring type valve stem seals on the jungle site that I can have here by Monday, so I ordered them so I can at least get the heads back together hopefully by the end of this weekend. (I'm off on Monday's now from work)

I managed to get all of the valves lapped on one head this evening and almost all of the springs and all cleaned up using my ultrasonic cleaner. I still have 6 more valves, springs, and all yet to clean. a couple of the valves have a small amount of pitting on them, but they cleaned up and...

Thanks Will. I will take another look at #3. are the felpro head gaskets better to use than the full composite ones like Mahle shows? and if going with the +.010 thicker ones, will that harm the compression ratio or have a power/economy loss over standard?

Starting to look up gaskets and things I need to get this engine put together. I may take some items off or look for them on the jungle site to try and save on some cost, but other than the oil pump and HB, what am I missing? I see differences on head gaskets too, I figure stay with the...

Here is the video I used to learn. he's doing a small block chevy and it starts around time stamp 34:23 and goes till time stamp 50:13 it's over a 2 hour video. I like watching his videos! one of the only reasons I pay for youtube premium so I can watch shows without any ads!!

Well what do you guys think? are these good or do I need to lap further? I spent about 5 minutes on each of these two valves lapping by hand. I went until the grinding sound almost went completely quiet. though I noticed that when I stopped and re-applied more compound the grinding sound...

Question for you guys. I am going forward and cleaning up all of the valves, springs, keepers, shims and all and start lapping the valves. Obviously I need to keep the same valve in the same hole in the head, but do I need to keep the springs, keepers, shims, and whatnot all together with the...

I forgot to mention that these heads also had the cast iron rockers like the other one too!

I think I am gonna have a big pile of leftover parts to get rid of once I finish this project! two 6.2's torn down in the garage! I'm running out of room to move around LOL I may strip the 6.2 that's cracked and send it to the scrap yard. not unless there are things in the block that would...