{"id":10015,"date":"2012-11-07T08:13:47","date_gmt":"2012-11-07T13:13:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.chinonthetank.com\/?p=10015"},"modified":"2012-11-07T08:19:41","modified_gmt":"2012-11-07T13:19:41","slug":"cleaning-valves","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.chinonthetank.com\/2012\/11\/cleaning-valves\/","title":{"rendered":"Cleaning Valves"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Let talk about valves&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>As you can see in the below picture, my cb450 valves were all sorts of f&#8217;ed up.<\/p>\n<div class=\"cott-article__copy-img\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.chinonthetank.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/450-head-05.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.chinonthetank.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/450-head-05.jpg\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<p>We determined that the piston must have burned up a hole in itself and the aluminum burned onto the valves? I guess? I could not get the shit off no matter what I tried.<\/p>\n<p>Remember this is an extra head I got on eBay so I really didn&#8217;t know the condition.<\/p>\n<p>So, Ricky had a tip to get the shit off the valves. He suggested muriatic acid to burn the aluminum off of the steel valves. It def worked great. Thanks Rick. Took a while and pretty sure I have cancer now from the fumes, but the valves seriously look like mint NOS valves after a quick run on the wire wheel.<\/p>\n<p>They should lap in great now.<\/p>\n<div class=\"cott-article__copy-img\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.chinonthetank.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/11\/20121107-075700.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.chinonthetank.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/11\/20121107-075700.jpg\" alt=\"20121107-075700.jpg\" class=\"alignnone size-full\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<div class=\"cott-article__copy-img\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.chinonthetank.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/11\/20121107-081157.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.chinonthetank.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/11\/20121107-081157.jpg\" alt=\"20121107-081157.jpg\" class=\"alignnone size-full\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<div class=\"cott-article__copy-img\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.chinonthetank.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/11\/20121107-081207.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.chinonthetank.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/11\/20121107-081207.jpg\" alt=\"20121107-081207.jpg\" class=\"alignnone size-full\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<div class=\"cott-article__copy-img\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.chinonthetank.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/11\/20121107-081215.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.chinonthetank.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/11\/20121107-081215.jpg\" alt=\"20121107-081215.jpg\" class=\"alignnone size-full\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<div class=\"cott-article__copy-img\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.chinonthetank.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/11\/20121107-081222.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.chinonthetank.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/11\/20121107-081222.jpg\" alt=\"20121107-081222.jpg\" class=\"alignnone size-full\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Let talk about valves&#8230; As you can see in the below picture, my cb450 valves were all sorts of f&#8217;ed up. We determined that the piston must have burned up a hole in itself and the aluminum burned onto the valves? I guess? I could not get the shit off no matter what I tried. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":10010,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[24],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chinonthetank.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10015"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chinonthetank.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chinonthetank.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chinonthetank.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chinonthetank.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10015"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.chinonthetank.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10015\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10020,"href":"https:\/\/www.chinonthetank.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10015\/revisions\/10020"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chinonthetank.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/10010"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chinonthetank.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10015"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chinonthetank.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10015"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chinonthetank.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10015"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}