FTO AUSTRALIA

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

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

valve spring compressors are adjustable arent they

i dunno which to even get!

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

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.

is GR tappets adjustable?
i thought gpx was?

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.

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.

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!

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