Originally Posted by rusty nut garage
Hardened valves and hard seats in stock studebakers heads is another urban legend.
If your (you're) running your stude hard In a truck for instance or expect considerable mileage out of a valve job I'd recommend hard seats. If its a hobby car I don't feel it's necessary.
Hardened valves and hard seats in stock studebakers heads is another urban legend.
If your (you're) running your stude hard In a truck for instance or expect considerable mileage out of a valve job I'd recommend hard seats. If its a hobby car I don't feel it's necessary.
I would like to see this discussed further. Not taking sides, I don't know, either way.... 'not saying you're right, not saying you're wrong.
But... for as long as I've been visiting the old news group, and this forum, I have observed several folks that profess to be all-knowing Stude experts declare that installing hardened valve/seats in Studebaker heads is a waste of money, because, they say, Stude components were already "hardened" from the factory, as opposed to, "soft block" cars.
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