Swapping valve seals

[Anonymous_User]

*sigh*

I should have done this while the head was off last week, but seeing the play in the turbo shaft, I thought for sure the oil smoke was from the turbo. Smokes at stop lights. So, I swapped the turbo and it didn't smoke at all. But, the next day I get around to fresh oil and filter. I was quite low on oil which is apparently why it didn't smoke. Now that I'm topped with fresh oil, it is smoking again.

I guess I'll swap the valve seals. I have a fitting for the air compressor, but I was wondering what style of valve spring compressor works best with the head on the car?

[tryingbe]

Factory tool or this.

http://www.harborfreight.com/cpi/cta...emnumber=92900

[Anonymous_User]

I've got one of them.... somewhere. Didn't know if there was enough room to use it. Guess it's worth a shot!

[tryingbe]

Plenty of room.

[cordes]

No way! the best style to use on the car is the lever style with the two hooks that fit over the cam. I have used both, and would use the lever style in a heartbeat over the screw style one.

[turbovanman²]

Hard to find the lever style. The one shown works but its slow as hell,

[cordes]

Hard to find the lever style. The one shown works but its slow as hell,

That is true. Fortunatly I found a place locally up in MI that would sell me stuff for really cheap since they knew that I was just an el. ed. student trying to fix his cars. There was a young guy there that was always giving me good deals. He actually let me have the lever style compressor at his cost, which was about 1/2 of retail.

The place was called stuart tool and they are in troy MI. I know they will ship if you order $50 or so from them. Heck of a deal for SK when I was there. Hardly more than the craftsman stuff even on sale.

[turbovanman²]

Hmmm, going to have to do some digging. Anyone got part numbers of the lever style?

[ssheen]

I was lucky enough to find a new one (kd 3807) on ebay for 20$ or so a year or so ago. I really like it.