Sorry id I haven't responded to the last few posts, but I pushed the smoking problem off to concentrate on some other work that had backed up in the shop. To recap, when I last left off, I had replaced the valve seals only to have the car smoke worse than before the seals were replaced. Took it on two extended rides, and thought it had started to clear up, but that was just wishful thinking. This is where I paused working on it. Here is the rest of the story that should answer any of your questions and I hope may help someone in the future.
When I ordered the first set of valve seals from Millers in Arizona, one seal was sent, I called and they sent me 11 seals not 12, taking one out of the package to make up for the one they had already sent. At this point I wasn't aware that the intake and exhaust valve stems are a different diameter. They came in one package with one part #, I could be wrong but I have never seen this, different size seals have different part #'s. We replaced the seals, by now you can see where this is going. My next step was to pull the head and have it rebuilt, but I try to think logically and kept thinking how the smoking got worse after the seals were replaced. I ordered another set of seals , again from Miller's, only this time looked more closely at the seals and saw there was a difference in the intake and exhaust.
After re doing the job ,finding one horizontally split seal and larger size seals where they shouldn't be, we put the car back together and as suggested in earlier posts it still smoked, however about 15 miles into a 40 mile ride on the interstate the smoking ceased. Thankfully problem solved. Going back to the first set of seals I ordered where Miller's foolishly took one intake seal out, the single seal they had sent was an exhaust leaving me with 5 intake and 7 exhaust seals. Naturally this made the problem worse.
