Valve spring help!
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Valve spring help!
I had a timing belt break on my '84 TD Jetta which remarkably only ended up bending a couple valves and breaking off half of a valve shim bucket inside the valve chamber. I took the head off and had the valves replaced but they left the broken piece of the bucket in the valve chamber. I bought a valve spring compressor but can't figure out how to release the spring so I can take it out and reach down in there. I can get the spring down about an inch or so (the compressor doesn't work very well) and I can see a floating cone-shaped spring stop at the top of the stem, which I'm guessing is what I need to remove somehow, but looking at it while the spring is compressed it I can't see how it's done. I'd love some help! Thanks a lot. - Jeff
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Quantum-man
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Are you saying that there is a piece of bucket behind the valve head?
Can you not compress the springs and remove the collets, by putting piston at TDC?
Can you not compress the springs and remove the collets, by putting piston at TDC?
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A little magnet-on-a-stick works really really well at convincing those metal keepers to release their death-grip on the sides of the valve stem.Jerffry wrote:I think I just need to know how to take off the collets! I couldn't see how to do it when I had the spring compressed.
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2001 silver TDI Jetta Malone Stage 1.5 , 2001 blue TDI Jetta SBIII 216s Malone Stage 3
1970 Bay Window bus
Gone but not forgotten: 1969/1971 Beetles, 1969/1974 Westies, 1979 Rabbit, 1986 TD Jetta, 1992 gas Jetta, 1994 TD Jetta
Here's a small collection of HOW-TOs
I've never gotten this far into an OHC engine, but anytime I work on a US domestic engine, I use a magnet on top of the valve as Vince says and knock the keepers loose. If it's anything like a US domestic engine (with the valvespring held on by a retainer which is held on by the clips), I use an impact socket to fit over the valve and onto the retainer and smack it really hard with a hammer to try to loosen the retainer from the keepers.Vincent Waldon wrote:A little magnet-on-a-stick works really really well at convincing those metal keepers to release their death-grip on the sides of the valve stem.
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