Valve Spring Compressor Tool

payaya · Post by **payaya** » Sat Jul 02, 2005 2:41 pm

Hey all anyone know where i can get a valve spring compressor suited to the FTO cam arrangement?? I've used a screw driver before but its a pain!

I need to do my lifters.

thanks

Post by **Bennoz** » Sat Jul 02, 2005 2:55 pm

If you find one let me know as well!
My knuckles are still barked from the last effort...

SG · Post by SG » Sat Jul 02, 2005 6:40 pm

valve spring compressors are adjustable arent they

payaya · Post by **payaya** » Sat Jul 02, 2005 9:19 pm

i dunno which to even get!

payaya · Post by **payaya** » Sat Jul 09, 2005 9:50 pm

ive done my lifters many times, and i can say the rear set is an absolute pain!!! Never going there again!

Post by **Bennoz** » Sun Jul 24, 2005 2:18 pm

Well, well, well... I did the back set of lifters yesterday.
All I have to say for those kids out there that want to do their GR tappets is DONT!! Give it to your poor mechanic!!

Whatta f@cken nightmare!! Took me about 4 hours, 12 beers and a half pack of smokes. Its painful enough just getting to the back set! Ya gotta rip half the engine out, then once your in, I had to do the old screwdriver job to get em out... I dont reckon you'd be able to buy any sort of spring compressor to get int there. There's not enough room - It'd be easier just to pull the friggen cams out... I was very tempted I tell you...

I swore at the car, kicked the c%nt & barked half my knuckles... BUT
GOD DAMN IT RUNS QUIET NOW!!

End result very pleasing indeed - but definitely get someone else to do it next time.

fto617 · Post by **fto617** » Sun Jul 24, 2005 3:15 pm

is GR tappets adjustable?
i thought gpx was?

Post by **Bennoz** » Sun Jul 24, 2005 3:18 pm

fto617 wrote:is GR tappets adjustable?
i thought gpx was?

GPX is adjustable - GR are replaceable. I swapped all of them out for new ones.

payaya · Post by **payaya** » Fri Aug 05, 2005 8:49 pm

Bennoz wrote:Well, well, well... I did the back set of lifters yesterday.
All I have to say for those kids out there that want to do their GR tappets is DONT!! Give it to your poor mechanic!!

Whatta f@cken nightmare!! Took me about 4 hours, 12 beers and a half pack of smokes. Its painful enough just getting to the back set! Ya gotta rip half the engine out, then once your in, I had to do the old screwdriver job to get em out... I dont reckon you'd be able to buy any sort of spring compressor to get int there. There's not enough room - It'd be easier just to pull the friggen cams out... I was very tempted I tell you...

I swore at the car, kicked the c%nt & barked half my knuckles... BUT
GOD DAMN IT RUNS QUIET NOW!!
End result very pleasing indeed - but definitely get someone else to do it next time.

Truely agreed! I managed to change every lifter by i was so tempted to just leave a couple, as with a screw driver its very hard to stop it from slipping! It would be so much easier with a vavle spring compressor! Yuo can get the tool. The way i rate doing the rear lifters is prob worse than doing the timing belt! Its so time consuming, and without the proper tools, is very frustating. I can get the front lifters easy, but the rears are nightmares!

The group should invest in a tool and pass it around.

OC · Post by OC » Fri Aug 05, 2005 10:12 pm

Bennoz wrote:Well, well, well... I did the back set of lifters yesterday.
All I have to say for those kids out there that want to do their GR tappets is DONT!! Give it to your poor mechanic!!

Whatta f@cken nightmare!! Took me about 4 hours, 12 beers and a half pack of smokes. Its painful enough just getting to the back set! Ya gotta rip half the engine out, then once your in, I had to do the old screwdriver job to get em out... I dont reckon you'd be able to buy any sort of spring compressor to get int there. There's not enough room - It'd be easier just to pull the friggen cams out... I was very tempted I tell you...

I swore at the car, kicked the c%nt & barked half my knuckles... BUT
GOD DAMN IT RUNS QUIET NOW!!
End result very pleasing indeed - but definitely get someone else to do it next time.

Good to hear it runs quiet!

payaya · Post by **payaya** » Fri Aug 12, 2005 9:18 pm

I changed my fronts the other day with new Motul 4100 Turblite 10W-40? Damn 1 lifter in the front is ticking sometimes!!!

What the hell? Should i take them out and have a look? Or crap oil??

What oil do you GR guys use? I thought Motul was good? I dont want Magnatec, or Castrol, that stuff leaves gunk under the rocker rovers etc, i dont wanna imagine what else its doing to the engine!

Some shell, mobil?? I tried mobil 1 once didnt like it for the lifters.

thanks