First of all let me just say that I am in no way new to dsm's and I am pretty knowledgeable about all of them, I just never post on this site. I am mainly on dsmtuners and mostly on www.widsm.org ... Anyways I own a 90 plymouth laser rs-t and a 95 talon esi which brings me to my question...



So I just bought new valve seals for my talon since its burns oil like mad at idle and I am just wondering how hard it is and what I have to do in order to replace them. I've never done them before, I'm just looking for some helpful info and tips.

I'm assuming I'll need to take the head off so there goes some more money on a new head gasket and ARP hardware and possibly a spacer to lower the compression a tad bit. Any help is appreciated.

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95TalonOwner on DSMTuners.com
Wes Tank on WiDSM.org

Simply pull the head, remove the valve springs and the seals slide right off of the top of the valve guides. The seals are the easiest part of the whole operation,lol.

Jamie-
-AUTOMATIC turbo'd 95 Talon ESI@8psi (stock internals)14.0sec=1/4 mile

-2003 Mitsubishi Evo VIII

Ok thanks for the info. Hopefully it goes as smoothly as you said it should.

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95TalonOwner on DSMTuners.com
Wes Tank on WiDSM.org

Read up on this if you wanna figure out the best ways to get the springs compressed. Make sure the head on the spring compressor is a 90 degree head, some are at an angle which makes it harder to work with.

http://forums.2gnt.com/dcboard.php?az=show_topic&forum=4&topic_id=82113&mesg_id=82113&page=&topic_page=2

Jamie-
-AUTOMATIC turbo'd 95 Talon ESI@8psi (stock internals)14.0sec=1/4 mile

-2003 Mitsubishi Evo VIII

I just take mine to a cylinder head shop and have em do it for me. But yeah like you said you should take it out. Might as well bring it to a shop so they can check things over while they do it, maybe get a valve job done. If you've been kinda beating on your engine the 420As valves aren't that tough...

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Our stock exhaust valves get pitted REALLY easily.

Jamie-
-AUTOMATIC turbo'd 95 Talon ESI@8psi (stock internals)14.0sec=1/4 mile

-2003 Mitsubishi Evo VIII

Are the valve seals the umbrella style and also do the valves have guides (Inserts in the head style) like the say a small block chevy head?

Thanks in advance

98 Talon

The head has valve guides insterted into it. The valve seal assembly presses onto the top of the valve guide, then the valve spring sits on top of the valve seal. Heres an exploded view:

http://www.2gnt.com/CAPS/main11/main11sub230.html

part #03440 is the valve seal

Jamie-
-AUTOMATIC turbo'd 95 Talon ESI@8psi (stock internals)14.0sec=1/4 mile

-2003 Mitsubishi Evo VIII