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Makes 🢒 Holden 🢒 2009 🢒 Viva 🢒 Engine 🢒 Engine Mechanical - 1.8L (L79) 🢒 Valve Guide Reaming, and Valve and Seat Grinding

Special Tools

    • KM-340-1-C Cutter Set
    • KM-571-B Gage
    • KM-805 Valve Guide Reamer

    Object Number: 1289881 Size: SH
  1. Lubricate the valve seat using a fine-grained paste.
  2. Lift the valve rhythmically from the seat with a commercially available valve grinding tool in order to distribute the paste.

    3. Object Number: 1289882 Size: SH
  3. Check the contact pattern on the valve head and in the cylinder head.
  4. Clean the valves the valve guides and the cylinder head.

Valve Grind

    Warning: Refer to Safety Glasses Warning in the Preface section.


    Object Number: 1289884 Size: SH
  1. Ensure that there are no crater line burns on the valve cone.
  2. The valve may be reground only two times. Do not grind the valve stem end.
  3. Ensure that the angle at the valve face is 45 degrees.
  4. Inspect the assembly height of the intake valves and the exhaust valves.

Valve Guide - Ream

    Warning: Refer to Safety Glasses Warning in the Preface section.


    Object Number: 1289886 Size: SH
  1. Measure the diameter of the valve guide using KM-571-B  (1) and a commercially available inside micrometer.

    2. Object Number: 1289887 Size: SH

    Important: Oversized valves may already have been fitted in production.

  2. An oversize service code is on the valve guide and the valve stem end. The Valve Guide Reaming table gives the correct size, reamer, and production code for each service code. Refer to the Valve Guide Reaming table in Engine Mechanical Specifications.
  3. Using KM-805 , ream the valve guide from the upper side of the cylinder head to the next oversize.
  4. After reaming, cross out the code and emboss the valve guide with the new code.

Valve Seat - Cut

    Warning: Refer to Safety Glasses Warning in the Preface section.


    Object Number: 1289865 Size: SH
  1. Place the cylinder head on wooden blocks.
  2. Cut the intake and the exhaust valve seats using KM-340-7 Guide Drift as follows:
    3. • Valve seat - A 45-degree (b) surface using the cutter KM-340-13.
    • Upper correction angle - A 30-degree (a) surface using the cutter KM-340-13.
    • Lower correction angle - A 60-degree (c) surface using the cutter KM-340-26.
  3. Clean the chippings from the cylinder head.
  4. Inspect the dimension for the valve seat width.

    5. Specifications

        • Intake: 1.2-1.4 mm (0.047-0.055 in)
        • Exhaust: 1.4-1.8 mm (0.055-0.070 in)
  5. Inspect the assembly height of the intake valves and the exhaust valves. If the dimension is exceeded. Install new valves. Inspect the assembly height of the intake valves and the exhaust valves again. If the valve assembly height is still too large despite replacing the valves, replace the cylinder head.