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Engine Specific Info and Questions => IDI Engine => Topic started by: truckinwagen on January 15, 2009, 04:05:18 pm

Title: valve stem seals, how do you get them out?
Post by: truckinwagen on January 15, 2009, 04:05:18 pm

hey there guys, I am rebuilding my head after a catastrophic timing slip, and I am having some trouble getting the old valve stem seal out to replace them.

are there any tricks?

Title: valve stem seals, how do you get them out?
Post by: Krazy on January 15, 2009, 05:57:03 pm

http://www.tooltopia.com/index.asp?PageAction=VIEWPROD&ProdID=11286

Title: valve stem seals, how do you get them out?
Post by: Smokey Eddy on January 15, 2009, 07:09:52 pm

strong language + needle nose gets the same result, usually.

Title: valve stem seals, how do you get them out?
Post by: truckinwagen on January 15, 2009, 07:28:44 pm

thats what I was trying, I guess I need to spend more time and break out my sailor language.

Title: valve stem seals, how do you get them out?
Post by: Smokey Eddy on January 15, 2009, 10:21:32 pm

Quote from: "truckinwagen"

thats what I was trying, I guess I need to spend more time and break out my sailor language.

It's mechanic language now. You have to start making up your own. There are several i've constructed with my good 4 wheeling friend stuart. Don't know if they would be appropriate for the forum however. But it would be funny to see if some people have the same. heh heh.


They are held on with a bit of a lip.  I guess ideally you would want some sort of ... backwards press that would slowly pull up with untold force without the effect of you flying backwards throwing the pliers into the windshield of the car beside you in the garage.

Title: valve stem seals, how do you get them out?
Post by: the caveman on January 16, 2009, 06:57:23 am

once when the tool broke i managed to use a small right angle pry bar. Just be ccaarrreeefffuuuullllllll.

Title: valve stem seals, how do you get them out?
Post by: Vincent Waldon on January 16, 2009, 06:59:13 am

I just took an old pair of pliers and ground out a slot in the first third of the jaws to form a lip.

A more eloquent approach is to weld a nut on the end of the pliers first... as per about 1/2 way down this thread:

http://www.vwdieselparts.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=771