What's a collet?

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Holds the valvespring and the valve together tiny piece of metal.

Oh crap

Its a teeny tiny little piece of metal that looks like a cone cut in half....its amazing where they can get caught up inside a motor....

Its a teeny tiny little piece of metal that looks like a cone cut in half....its amazing where they can get caught up inside a motor....

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Would rip the guts out of the impella.

Its a teeny tiny little piece of metal that looks like a cone cut in half....its amazing where they can get caught up inside a motor....

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Would rip the guts out of the impella.

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???

If you mean the turbo impeller....

No, not directly. Maybe in the aftermath....

one scenario....

If it gets caught up in sloshing sump oil and wedges itself between a small gap between the inside surface of the engine block and the rotating crank... then you might get something more dramatic than a broken turbo impeller

or if it gets lodged in an oil gallery, you might get premature failure in another component down the track.

I'd be wanting to locate it.

I hate losing things that should not have occured. Bloody time waster.

The only other thing I hate when rebuilding is finding I've got bits left over?

now where was this supposed to go?

lol id be fidning that collet before firing that engine up mate!!

your gunna find that maybe paying for labour for fitting the springs would of been WAY cheaper than wat your gunna be up for now........

from memory I think it only cost 450 for labour of valve spring fitting or there abouts, by the time you get all the tools and all that I think better of doin in that way.

Oh and dont you love when you do a job you end up with more bolts than you started with

I just had mine done today by goldie pick it up in the morning cant wait to be able to give it a squirt with out the rough running straight after

Did my valve springs on the weekend. Didn't think it was too bad! had the Atomic tool. Was time consuming, took bout 5 1/2hours open to close! car actually revs past 5000rpm comfertably!

Any one that's looking to buy an Atomic tool mine will be for sale, just waiting to here back from a mate to see if he wants his done first!

Since having my springs done I cant believe the difference in my car so much nicer to drive actually revs past 5000 and is SMOOTH thanks again Ian