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by **Grrrrrrr!** » Wed Sep 21, 2011 11:04 pm

Anybody got a valve spring compressor tool I could borrow for a couple of nights to put the valves into the MR2 head?

Also, best way of getting the old stem seals off.. molest with long nose pliers till they fall off? or is there a better way?

Cheers

by **solitaire** » Wed Sep 21, 2011 11:38 pm

Where you based in auckland? could sort something out seeing as i want bits from you anyway!

by **Grrrrrrr!** » Wed Sep 21, 2011 11:42 pm

I'm in the Onehunga massif..

by **Malcolm** » Thu Sep 22, 2011 9:18 am

If you have no luck there, the FSAE team still have my valve spring compressor, although last time I looked it seemed like they may have modified it for the smaller valve springs on the 450 (I'm hoping they unbolted and kept the attachment for bigger stuff, rather than cut it off and binned it).

I had to modify some needle nose pliers to give them a notch so they could get behind the lip on the bottom of stem seals when I rebuilt a 7MGTE head, I still have them if you want to give them a try

by **solitaire** » Thu Sep 22, 2011 9:22 am

Whereabouts do you work Grrrrrr? I live in orewa but i work in town.

by **Grrrrrrr!** » Thu Sep 22, 2011 9:58 am

Work is also Onehunga, all good, I need to go use the FSAE workshop and pick up bits from sandblaster to drop to Malcolm, so i'll steal his

by **Malcolm** » Thu Sep 22, 2011 10:42 am

I'll ask Jimmy and James to see if either of them know what happened to the larger attachment for mine, one of them is bound to be responsible for modifying it

by **KinLoud** » Fri Sep 23, 2011 9:25 pm

Yep - you can borrow mine

Ken
021 408 863

by **Grrrrrrr!** » Sat Sep 24, 2011 2:00 am

Cheers Ken, I'll drop you a line tomorrow once I get stuck into car stuff.

by **KinLoud** » Sun Sep 25, 2011 10:56 pm

Ha - typical...
Lee and I spent an hour looking in all the (million) boxes in my garage - to find it my valve spring compressor...

Murphy's Law says that you will find what you're looking for the third time you look in the same box -
I've got no idea why I didn't see valve spring compressor the first 2 times I looked there!

Ken

by **Grrrrrrr!** » Mon Sep 26, 2011 12:12 am

Y U only take picture of half ur garage Ken? :lol:

by **RomanV** » Sat Oct 01, 2011 3:37 pm

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