Valve guid seals


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M&T82WING
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Valve guid seals

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Can the valve guid seals be changed when the heads are still on the engine? My Dad was mechanic for 38 years he did that with compress'd air in the spark plug hole and spring compressor. I'm just wondering if anybody made a tool for Goldwing engine's to speed up the job?
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Re: Valve guid seals

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Same procedure. You can also use a bit of rope: stuff it in the sparkplug hole and manually crank the motor to bring the piston up to TDC (he has probably done this in the past too).

You can go to the autoparts store and get a compression tester, the hose that screws into the plug hole can be used to hook to compressor air.
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Re: Valve guid seals

Post by M&T82WING »

Thanks for your reply,, I have heard of this befor the old cotton close line trick would work I'll just have make the tool maybe I havent had the valve coves off yet but I do have a blown up engine to use as a test mule when I get around to it I'll get busy posting pics just havent gotton layed off yet to have extra time.
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