To all of you automotive machinist people in HAMB land I have a question, in the 70's I used to install umbrella seals on stock SBC heads w/o cutting the guides to accept the seal. I dislike the o-ring style so does anyone have a part # for the seals I need? Thanks to all!
Just to mess w/your head(or not, LOL) almost any umbrella seal for a 5/16" dia. valve stem(as in Y-block Ford, among many others)will do Fine. Average abt. $.50 ea
i just paid almost $30 for a set of ss10058's i thought that was alot, i have an OT pick with a 350 and i'm going to install both o-ring and umbrella seals,
When I worked in the NAPA machine shop in '69, we used the small-block Ford umbrellas on all the small-block Chevys. No machining required. At that time, they were the same price as the o-rings.