{"id":57,"date":"2011-09-09T13:52:27","date_gmt":"2011-09-09T17:52:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/fe3miata.com\/site\/?p=57"},"modified":"2011-09-19T22:55:56","modified_gmt":"2011-09-20T02:55:56","slug":"valve-seal-puller-sst-special-service-tool","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fe3miata.com\/site\/?p=57","title":{"rendered":"Valve Seal Puller: Half is Twice is Good"},"content":{"rendered":"<h5><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"  alignleft\" style=\"margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 4px;\" title=\"DIY seal puller tool\" src=\"https:\/\/fe3miata.com\/site\/wp-content\/images\/iconSSTsealpuller.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"100\" height=\"100\" \/>Baked on valves seals lose their grip with the help of a chip puller halved.<\/h5>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><br \/>\nBut before I go any further, if you&#8217;re doing a valve seal job, just buy the purpose-built plier type seal puller <strong>before<\/strong> you start the job. That said, I was all geared up to do this job and found the seals impossible to remove with any normal tool in the box. I tried using \u00a0spare chip puller tongs from my tech tool box but they just couldn&#8217;t squeeze tight enough. I clipped the tongs in the center and traded the squeeze action for a hook. Next I locked down on that end with some pliers, and produced a very effective seal puller by alternating pulls on opposing sides of the seal to work it up the guide.<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone\" title=\"SST Valve Seal Puller\" src=\"https:\/\/fe3miata.com\/site\/wp-content\/images\/SSTsealpuller.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Baked on valves seals lose their grip with the help of a chip puller halved.<br \/>\n&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[20,26,22,23,17,15,25,16,18,51,54,53,49,50,47,21,19,24,52],"class_list":["post-57","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-tools-tweaked-and-created","tag-crushed","tag-engine-swap","tag-fe-dohc","tag-fe3","tag-mazda","tag-miata","tag-modified","tag-mx-5","tag-mx5","tag-pliers","tag-puller","tag-seal","tag-service","tag-special","tag-tools-2","tag-tree","tag-turbo","tag-turbocharged","tag-valve"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/fe3miata.com\/site\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/fe3miata.com\/site\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/fe3miata.com\/site\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fe3miata.com\/site\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fe3miata.com\/site\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=57"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/fe3miata.com\/site\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":59,"href":"https:\/\/fe3miata.com\/site\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57\/revisions\/59"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/fe3miata.com\/site\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=57"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fe3miata.com\/site\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=57"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fe3miata.com\/site\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=57"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}