Expert Insights A Guide to Removing Hydraulic Lifters

Collet expands to tightly grasp hydraulic valve lifter, allowing for easy removal. Specially designed to easily free tight or stuck lifters. High quality steel construction. This tool is used to remove hydraulic lifters from the engine. Once the hydraulic lifters are worn out, they need to be removed for inspection or replacement. I have a super tool made by Snap-On you could borrow if you were in the neighborhood. It works like a slide hammer and grabs the inside snap ... You will need all the usual tools for removing the necessary parts to get down to the bare bones of your valve covers. If you don't have an ... It could be done as the workshop manual has tools for removing the head with the engine still in the car, but what a horrible job that would be. Almost always able to get them with a strong magnetic pickup tool. For the occasional annoying one a lifter pulling tool like Azdave showed ... The bar stock fit perfectly between cam lobes with a bit of an angle to clear the adjacent spring retainer. Slipped a box end wrench on the " ... Use one of the cheapo extension magnet rods or a lifter removal tool. mopowers. Well-Known Member. Joined: Feb 15, 2006. Messages: 9,225. By pulling up on the tool, the valve spring is depressed and remove the valve spring retainer and then the hydraulic valve lifter can be removed. •Applicable ... The OEMTOOLS Hydraulic Valve Lifter Tool is specially designed for the easy removal and installation of hydraulic valve lifters.