Valve colletts

[dplant_uk]

We managed to lose 1 valve collett, help!!!!!!!!! Can you buy these?

[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?

[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!!

[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.

[mike.perry]

Try running a magnet around the floor or sweeping the floor and examining the bits

[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><br>

[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.

[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.

[alex_holden]

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You should enter the photo contest with that picture!

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

[dplant_uk]

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.