how do you remove this friggin PCV valve
JK Junkie
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From: The Dirty South
Mine was stuck in ridiculously hard. Two of us tried and, most seriously, my assistant ended up needing knee surgery because he was pushing up so hard to force it out he injured his already weak knee (getting old sucks). So, I called a younger, and much bigger and stronger friend (6'4, 275 pounds) and asked him to come assist. And it still took us a half hour and a three foot lever to get it out. Here's what our contraption looked like, and I was holding the Vice Grips on to keep them from pushing against the bailing wire and releasing their grip ...
If someone wanted to make a specialty tool for pulling that, they'd have it insert a short piece of round stock into the PCV valve opening. That round stock would have a small hole at 90 degrees that was the size of the small hole in the top shaft of the PCV valve. You'd then clamp down with two semicircles around the outside of the PCV valve, like with pliers. And in one of those semicircle halves would be a small bit of round stock that would slip through that hole in the PCV valve and into the mating hole on the internal part of the pliers. A highly specialized tool, but I expect they'll sell like hotcakes to any mechanics who've ever changed one of those damned things!
If someone wanted to make a specialty tool for pulling that, they'd have it insert a short piece of round stock into the PCV valve opening. That round stock would have a small hole at 90 degrees that was the size of the small hole in the top shaft of the PCV valve. You'd then clamp down with two semicircles around the outside of the PCV valve, like with pliers. And in one of those semicircle halves would be a small bit of round stock that would slip through that hole in the PCV valve and into the mating hole on the internal part of the pliers. A highly specialized tool, but I expect they'll sell like hotcakes to any mechanics who've ever changed one of those damned things!
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