Valve work

[Leozbian]

Hi guys; I’m doing some valve work, just picked up a b7 2.0 with a ripped belt, pulled the head off, hot tanked the head, wire wheel on the valves, and now I’m currently lapping/grinding them to seat them correctly, this is my first time doing this rather than just sending my head to a shop, I have a lot of free time and decided to just go ahead and tackle it,

After I got everything cleaned up, and obviously trashed the 2 valves that were bent, I’m trying to put the valves in, and some of them slide in smoothly, some do not, I was just wondering what could be the issue, if this is even an issue.. they get pretty stuck to the point of where I have to tap them out with a rubber mallet.. but seating them still worked fairly well, what could I do differently or is this fine as long as the valves open after I install all the springs/rockers and turn crank, I tried labeling them just so i know where they were before but ended up wire wheeling off all the sharpie labeled valves, lol


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[Epic-A3]

Polishing the valve guides helps alot, be sure there is no debris in the guides also

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[Epic-A3]

If any other valves are slightly bent, you will feel them getting grabby. I wouldn't be surprised if you had more bent valves besides 1 cylinder. At TDC on my BPY 1 set is open and another partially open. I'd check all the valves and guides closely. I have a good set of new intake valves. If you need them, message me.

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