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Old 11-15-2016, 12:13 PM   #20
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When I was a kid and worked in a small garage that worked on mostly old English sports cars. We used to take the odd wrench and make a "Special Tool" by doing things like grinding down the sides of a box end wrench so it would fit in a tight space or heating up a wrench with a torch and bending it. Another special tool we made was to braze the bottom of hollowed out spark plug to a pneumatic air chuck. That was used on engines with worn valve guides that weren't ready for a valve job. Screw it into a cylinder, connect it to a compressor and then remove the valve springs to put those little rubber umbrellas on the valve stems. I don't know if that would work on today's engines, but for engines without overhead cams it worked pretty good!

For the Boxster you may also want some old hockey pucks to put in the pad of your hydraulic jack, depending on the type of jack you have.
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