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Valve colletts

Posted: Thu Jun 11, 2009 2:00 pm
by dplant_uk
We managed to lose 1 valve collett, help!!!!!!!!! Can you buy these?

Posted: Thu Jun 11, 2009 2:21 pm
by mike.perry
I'll try to find out. It isn't in the bottom of the engine is it? Or behind a valve spring pedastal?

Posted: Thu Jun 11, 2009 2:35 pm
by dplant_uk
No, we had them all out safely but the open box fell off the washing machine, schoolboy error!! And they're so tiny and easy to lose. 7 valves refitted, 1 left to go. Help!!

Posted: Thu Jun 11, 2009 3:49 pm
by alex_holden
Have you tried dimming the lights and pointing a torch flat on the floor? That sometimes helps to show up tiny lost objects by making them cast a long shadow.

Posted: Thu Jun 11, 2009 4:44 pm
by mike.perry
Try running a magnet around the floor or sweeping the floor and examining the bits

Posted: Fri Jun 12, 2009 3:43 am
by dplant_uk
All great ideas, my wife found one in the fluff from the tumble dryer, but still one missing. I will ask her to keep searching which is not so easy when it is my car and I am in Hong Kong. I'll be home in 2 weeks and hoping to get the engine purring :)

Q. Are these colletts the same across all moggy engines? Someone asked me the question in the 'wanted' section about A-frame engines colletts?<br>Image<br>

Posted: Fri Jun 12, 2009 7:20 am
by mike.perry
I don't think that they are the same as A series collets. I suppose that as a last resort you can have one made but it would be expensive.
Meanwhile keep trying with the magnet.

Posted: Fri Jun 12, 2009 8:13 am
by kennatt
I;m about 100% certain that if you ring chris at tom roys he will have loads laid about his workshop it's full of bits and pieces ,would be supprised if he can't help out.

Posted: Fri Jun 12, 2009 8:39 am
by alex_holden
dplant_uk wrote:Image<br>
You should enter the photo contest with that picture! :D

http://www.morrisminoroc.co.uk/index.ph ... &start=630

Valve collett

Posted: Sat Jun 13, 2009 3:31 am
by dplant_uk
kennatt wrote:I;m about 100% certain that if you ring chris at tom roys he will have loads laid about his workshop it's full of bits and pieces ,would be supprised if he can't help out.
Thanks, I'll give him a call.