Engine Replacing valve stim seals

Replacing valve stim seals

Hey, im looking for a few ways to keep me from burning oil as bad as i am. I burn almost a quart every 1000 miles. Now i do drive the car hard. But i need something done to last me till feb or march of next year when i can have engine swap shit done.

This one company wants like 550 dollars to do it. We have an air compressor, and my dad has worked on engines before. Where can i buy them and is there a kit to help install them? Also, will this help me save oil are there other things to do?

EDIT: It is a 7AFE

Thanks, it says like 4 dollars for intake and exhaust, is that for all cyc. or do i need one for each? Also my dad was talkinga bout hooking up the compressor to it to keep them from falling to the block or something, is there a tool for that or what?

90913-12089 Exhaust side
90913-12090 intake side
You need 8 of each.

I just watched my dad re-do the exhaust stems on his '92 Mitsubishi 3 Litre V6 engine (Dodge Spirit). He re-did them because the car would puff smoke (burn oil) after waiting at a stop light or idling for more than 10 seconds or so.

First off, for him it was rather hard given the position of the engine and having to get on top of the block to reach the back cylinders. Shouldn't be as discomforting with an I4 like we have.

Second, yes, you will want to make sure you use that air compressor and make sure you pressurize the cylinder before doing the work on it. He also needed to rent a special tool from a Canadian Tire, not sure what your equivilant is. It was to remove the valve springs and hold them so they would be easy to re-install after the seal was replace.

Otherwise, just make sure you know how things are re-attatched when you take them appart, keep the engine parts organized on a bench or something. I don't have any more details... he did that work, I only watched for a few minutes.

One final note: He only did his exhaust seals, and that solved his oil burning problem.

In the states AutoZone rents all these specialty tools for free. I recently had to rent strut spring compressors, and they gave me a pamphlet with al lthe tools they rent. They had the valve spring compressor for rent as well.

Here is the online link with all the tools they have for loan:

http://autozone.com/servlet/UiBroke...loan_a_tool.jsp


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is there a place to rent these things... i would like to replace the seals in my car but i dont want to buy the damn thing... its not the money issue its just that I dont want to pay that much money for something im probably only going to use once os possibly twice if mom lets me replace the seals in her car which i doubt she will