Valve spring compressor?
Valve spring compressor?
Need to change valve guide seals. Is there a special spring compressor for compressing on the car or should I use a standard one?
Re: (180fan)
I sure appreciate that advice, but where do I get such an animal? Dealership?
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Re: (240DRFT)
I just replaced my valvesprings in my SR. I used a combination of two different valve spring tools. I did not want to drop $250 on a valve spring tool, when the head is worth less than that.
The first tool I made from a 14" piece of 1" x 1/8" steel flat bar. I bent the end of it into a "J" shape and drilled a 5/8" hole through the bar at the curved part of the J (right in the bend area). This tool works good on some of the valves, mainly the ones that are located near the cam towers. You leverage it off the cam tower and and pry downward and the valve stem (and the collets) poke up through the hole you drilled. Have a friend/wife/roommate/crazy guy down the street hold the tool while you carefully magnetize the collets off of the valve stem.
The other tool was this valve spring compressor:Found it at a local tool shophttp://www.discount-tools.biz/...g.jpgI think it is made by performance tool. It only works on the valve springs that are far away from the cam towers.
Dont lose the little collets, they are very small and love to jump all over the place when you accidentally let a spring go. I lost one down the front of the timing cover, took me about 2 hours with a veriety of magnets to finally find it.Also, pressurize the cylinder with compressed air through the spark plug hole. I had to make an adapter hose out of my craftsman compression testing set. this keeps the valves from falling into the cylinder.
Oh yeah, and have the phone number of a trusted mechanic nearby.
You are going to have fun!!!!(sucker...) j/k
The first tool I made from a 14" piece of 1" x 1/8" steel flat bar. I bent the end of it into a "J" shape and drilled a 5/8" hole through the bar at the curved part of the J (right in the bend area). This tool works good on some of the valves, mainly the ones that are located near the cam towers. You leverage it off the cam tower and and pry downward and the valve stem (and the collets) poke up through the hole you drilled. Have a friend/wife/roommate/crazy guy down the street hold the tool while you carefully magnetize the collets off of the valve stem.
The other tool was this valve spring compressor:Found it at a local tool shophttp://www.discount-tools.biz/...g.jpgI think it is made by performance tool. It only works on the valve springs that are far away from the cam towers.
Dont lose the little collets, they are very small and love to jump all over the place when you accidentally let a spring go. I lost one down the front of the timing cover, took me about 2 hours with a veriety of magnets to finally find it.Also, pressurize the cylinder with compressed air through the spark plug hole. I had to make an adapter hose out of my craftsman compression testing set. this keeps the valves from falling into the cylinder.
Oh yeah, and have the phone number of a trusted mechanic nearby.
You are going to have fun!!!!(sucker...) j/k