rockafellqeinstien Member 325 Member For: 16y 6m 7d Posted 01/10/12 11:51 PM Share Posted 01/10/12 11:51 PM Thinking of doing my own valve springs for my FG xr6 turbo. mainly because I like doing things myself and secondly it will save me some $$ and get my next round of upgrades sooner.has any one rented the atomic spring tool - was it pretty straight forward (looks like it from the video).looking for a bit of reassurance before I take the plunge Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
atomicyellowute Member 92 Member For: 12y 9m 4d Posted 04/10/12 09:26 AM Share Posted 04/10/12 09:26 AM I watched my mechanic do it, took him a full day, it's advanced work! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bionicxr6t05 Bronze Donating Members 2,216 Member For: 13y 6m 2d Gender: Male Posted 04/10/12 09:41 AM Share Posted 04/10/12 09:41 AM A whole day! It took me and my tuner one day to remove and modify the turbo, fit new injectors and valve springs and scale the injectors so I could drive home lol if we didnt need to pull te front cover off due to a busted guide it wouldve taken 3 hours max I reckon just to do the springs Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ralph Wiggum Moar Powar Babeh Lifetime Members 19,323 Member For: 19y 4m 6d Gender: Male Location: Perth Posted 04/10/12 10:31 AM Share Posted 04/10/12 10:31 AM ^whs 3 to 4hrs! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JETURBO ...JD TUNING ADELAIDE... Gold Donating Members 23,708 Member For: 16y 7m 29d Gender: Male Location: Adelaide Posted 04/10/12 10:35 AM Share Posted 04/10/12 10:35 AM op its not hard just time consuming if your half equipped, a decent tool,compressor and basic tools and a big clean bench is all u neededward scissor hands could do it in 8hrs 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
stee3 Member 194 Member For: 13y 7m 4d Posted 04/10/12 11:03 AM Share Posted 04/10/12 11:03 AM I did both my cars and then all my mates cars. My mates then started sending other mate my way so I sold the tools so I wouldn't have to do any more. Time consuming job take 4-6 hours to complete. Only thing to watch out for is to not drop a collet so have a good magnet handy and plug up the oil galleys with a rag too. Oh yeah don't forget to pull the rags out of the oil galleys when done too. I wouldn't recommend doing it unless you have done it before or seen someone else do it. Good luck man. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bonjaz Donating Members 1,841 Member For: 16y 1m 22d Gender: Male Location: CQ Posted 04/10/12 11:07 AM Share Posted 04/10/12 11:07 AM Got a mate that works in a performance shop, if he's on his game and everything is set up he will bang out 3 cars in a day. Mind you he has done looooooooots of falcons Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
old_mate Member 767 Member For: 18y 11m 16d Gender: Male Location: Brisbane Posted 04/10/12 12:10 PM Share Posted 04/10/12 12:10 PM A whole day! It took me and my tuner one day to remove and modify the turbo, fit new injectors and valve springs and scale the injectors so I could drive home lol if we didnt need to pull te front cover off due to a busted guide it wouldve taken 3 hours max I reckon just to do the springsRight clinton has a benchmark for mine now. Hopefully you don't do all his quotes slave driver hahahaha Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
atomicyellowute Member 92 Member For: 12y 9m 4d Posted 31/10/12 10:54 PM Share Posted 31/10/12 10:54 PM Hhahhaha 3-4 hours? My mechanic had my car for a month to put in valve springs and new guides! And even then he didn't put it back together right so now I get the warnings in the photo below Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MX Dave Donating Members 545 Member For: 13y 9m 24d Gender: Male Posted 31/10/12 11:05 PM Share Posted 31/10/12 11:05 PM (edited) ^ need new mechanic?3-4 hours with the correct tools ( spring tool, air line adapter, cam locks, electric rattle guns etc etc) and experience4-5 hours without the correct tools and a bit of experience5 hours + without correct tools and no valve train experience Edited 31/10/12 11:07 PM by MX Dave 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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