[s-cars] vavle guide seals

[Tom Mullane]

I don't like the compressed air method either, and I use the piston to hold
the valves closed too.  I take about 3 feet of soft nylon rope and run it
into the spark plug hole with the piston at the bottom of the stroke, then I
turn the crank until the piston pushed the soft rope against the valves to
hold them shut.

This job is not difficult, but it is timing consuming and annoying.

Tom

Date: Tue, 28 Feb 2006 18:02:27 -0700
From: "Jim Green" <jim.green at gmail.com>
Subject: Re: [s-cars] vavle guide seals
To: "elijahallen92 at aol.com" <elijahallen92 at aol.com>
Cc: s-car-list at audifans.com
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On 2/28/06, elijahallen92 at aol.com <elijahallen92 at aol.com> wrote:
>
> Hey guys, I'd like to replace the valve guide seals in my head. Is there a
> tool that makes this possible without pulling the head? Any BTDT's?
Thanks,
>
> Elijah
>
I think this is what you want.

http://www.toolss.com/wbstore/main.asp?action=PROD&PROD=VA60106022X&CTMP=1

As for holding the valve in place, I prefere to put the cyl you're working
on to TC and let the piston hold the valve.  I have dropped a valve into the
cyl using the compressed air metod and it took about an hr of fishing around
with magnetic tools to fish it back up into place.


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Jim Green
'89 90 GT35R quattro
'89 80q
http://www.mswanson.com/~jgreen/car_home.html