Fresh motor smoking?

[EHardy1971]

Originally Posted by BLOWN95GT

I didn't have the sleeve you are talking about but I did very carefully push the seals on by hand until I got them to the bottom of the stem. I pulled the intake back off and I'm going to have it hauled back to my shop in pell city some time soon when it's not storming so I can put it on the lift and pull the motor.

Yeah, if you're talking about the TrickFlow valve spring kit, mine didn't come with the sleeve either, I had a couple in my tool box I had kept from previous kits/builds. Even if you slide those on super careful without something like that over the valve lock grooves, you can still mess up the seal. The edges on those grooves are razor sharp and it only takes the slightest contact to cut it.