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Old 09-25-2020, 10:48 AM   #2
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I haven't particularly looked into the valve spring issue but I seem to recall hearing something about it being a heat treat issue that caused them to be susceptible to failure (which would make sense to me)

Since one supplier would be selling springs to several different manufacturers I wouldn't be surprised to find that this became a widespread issue. The heat treat problem (if that is in fact the issue) might not be that the treatment was spec'd wrong; it could be that one of the suppliers furnaces was running out of spec or miss-reading the temps.

Just my shot in the dark with my understanding of how such things work, but with no research done on this specific case.
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