Get a piece if thin soft rope about 3' long, put as much of it in the plug hole as possible, slowly turn the eng by hand till the piston is pushing on the rope. The rope will now be holding up the valve.---------------total savings is $ 80.
Ken Wiltrout Kutztown Pa ----- Original Message ----- From: "Dan Heath" <da...@alltel.net> To: <kr...@mylist.net> Sent: Wednesday, March 08, 2006 8:46 PM Subject: KR> VW and former VW people >I need to borrow a tool. I would buy one, but they cost around $80 and I > only need it for about 30 minutes. > It is used to replace valve springs, particularly when the heads are still > on the engine. It has a shaft that is just like the rocker arm shaft, > with > a long handled lever on the shaft that slides to the valve spring you need > to compress. It comes with a spark plug insert for putting air pressure > in > the cylinder, to keep the valves shut while you are working on them. > > The reason I need to replace my springs is because this engine sat around > since 1988 with pressure on the springs, only being turned a few times > during that period. I suspect that these springs have remembered some of > the shape they were in, and that all of them are not operating the same. > I > suspect that this may be the reason that the engine stumbles so badly when > advancing the throttle. > > For those of you who I have not told, Steve fixed the engine for me, and > it > is installed and has been "run in". I am now trying to fix an oil leak > that > I think I caused when swapping the oil screen plate for a side drain > adapter > that I got from Revmaster. Once that is done, I can get to some real Aero > Carb tweaking and then on to flying. Oh, I am installing the O2 sensor, > so > expect that the tweaking will be much easier this time. > > See N64KR at http://KRBuilder.org - Then click on the pics > See you in Mt. Vernon - 2006 - KR Gathering > There is a time for building and a time for FLYING and the time for > building > is OVER. > Daniel R. Heath - Lexington, SC > _______________________________________ > Search the KRnet Archives at http://www.maddyhome.com/krsrch/index.jsp > to UNsubscribe from KRnet, send a message to krnet-le...@mylist.net > please see other KRnet info at http://www.krnet.org/info.html > > > -- > No virus found in this incoming message. > Checked by AVG Free Edition. > Version: 7.1.375 / Virus Database: 268.2.1/277 - Release Date: 3/8/2006 > >
