Number 4 exhaust valve adjustment

[spidernut]

Any tips on how to collapse the valve spring on the number 4 exhaust valve? The valve adjusting tool will not fit do to the casting for the distributor on the cam box. I've done valve adjustment several times and always run into the same problem with this one valve and know there must be an efficient work around...I just don't want to buy another tool.

[vandor]

If you grind some of the corners of the tool it will fit. Someone here posted pics, I think, plus I have them on my work computer. Email me if you can't find them and I will send them to you tomorrow.

[RRoller123]

[spidernut]

I'll try it.

[V12StealthHunter]

For what its worth, the supposedly official fiat tool I got from Autoricambi also had to be mildly modified.

[bradartigue]

For what its worth, the supposedly official fiat tool I got from Autoricambi also had to be mildly modified.

There were several variations of the value tools, the earliest had a sliding indicator to tell you when you stop turning the camshaft, which was real neat, but it interfered with #4 on the 2000 engines...later types are boring, single casting of steel, and most interfere except for the very last types which had the nose grinded down so it would fit. So if you have an "official" tool it may very well be official and not fit...because even the grinded down was a poor fit.