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Alejoint Just got MTs
Joined: 26 Mar 2004 Odometer: 404 Location: Venezuela
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Posted: Tue Oct 24, 2006 3:58 pm Post subject: Home-made valve spring compressor
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Hi everybody:
Seems like the new forum has a lot less traffic that the older one. I thought I could add up some spice by posting a couple pics of my afro-engineered valve spring compressor...
Materials used: a 4-inch C-clamp, an old sacrificial El Crappo brand spark plug socket, a small piece of 5mm-thick steel plate, a 12 x 30 mm x 1.25 thread pitch hex bolt and some good cutting and welding...
It doesn´t look too pretty, but really works... The first picture shows my home-fab tool next to a K-D Tools universal valve spring compressor which I bought thinking it could work, but ended up being completely uselees (doesn´t grab the inner spring coils)...
Cheers for now;
__________________________________ Alejandro Gabatel
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gadgetboy Off-Road Guru
Joined: 03 Sep 2005 Odometer: 1947 Location: Belfast, N. Ireland
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Posted: Tue Oct 24, 2006 5:50 pm Post subject:
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Nice job Alejandro!
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Posted: Tue Oct 24, 2006 7:36 pm Post subject:
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Looking good, Alejandro!
Regards,
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wouter Gate Opener
Joined: 28 Sep 2006 Odometer: 47 Location: belgium
2001 Lada Niva
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Posted: Wed Oct 25, 2006 5:45 am Post subject:
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on the old forum there where some other tools you made and i must admit
I like your style
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teo Gate Opener
Joined: 30 Jul 2006 Odometer: 10 Location: Bucharest Rominia
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Posted: Mon Nov 20, 2006 11:02 am Post subject:
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Good job! This will be really usefull!!!
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