Valve stem seals? Renault 10

[PaS83]

Hello

Nearly a year ago I bought an old Renault 10 with seized engine, with a little rust remover, diesel and mild violence the engine now turns just fine.

On closer inspection of the cylinder head, I have seen that it has no valve stem seals fitted and they are not in any pictures or mentioned in any
of the three different workshop manuals I have.
Can it be supposed to be entirely without stem seals? The engine has almost certainly never been disassembled before...

I do have seals that fits, guess it can not do any harm to mount these?

The engine is a 810-03 1.289cc

 

[jonty]

Hi .
Out of intrest what car where the valve stem seals that you fitted in to your renault 10 engine? Im rebuilding a mk1 renault 5 engine and as the book shows no valve stem seals I wanted to fit some but am not sure on which ones to use.

Thanks.

 

[robbie]

all renaults 4/5/6/8/10/models did not have valve stem seals, it never was a problem with these cars
I cannot assit you on info about fitting of these as i have never tried and i have had lots of cylinder heads offf these cars over the years and never foundhad an oil eaking into the cylinders a prob.

 

[S-Car-Go]

Would this explain why I am having massive problems searching for valve stem seals for my 79 "Le Car"?

 

[mr-reno-139]

have a funny feeling that the volvo version of these engines did have stem seals fitted
volvo 343 with b 14 engine code
suppose if you have slight wear in your valve guides it might help

 

[S-Car-Go]

The machine shop was able to fit replacement seals for the one's they removed. They showed me what came out of the head, and since I have been looking at this stuff for about 48 hours straight. They look like those for an R5 GT Turbo. Like this:

 

[malcolm]

Those look like the ones that keep turning up in my gasket sets. It will be interesting to know if I could have been fitting them rather than chucking them away.

One thought - It will presumably reduce the life of the guides if you stop oil running down them.

 

[S-Car-Go]

Interesting point!