Brendan Hughes

Can you put a soldering iron on it? Localised intense heat, get the cap to expand without the valve expanding.

Edit - not sure if this will damage a) the internals of the valve, or b) conduct down to the vulcanising and cause damage there...

[Edited by Brendan Hughes - 4/3/2003 3:17:54 PM]

Gridlock Mikey

Alloy type valve cap, corroded to valve. Can't get the bloody thing off. Any Ideas as i've just swapped my fronts to back and my car is all wobbly round the twisty bits cos my pressures are all wrong.

Mikey

Old_Fart

Another reason we said the Dawes device was dangerous
Rgds
Chucky (Who would get a pair of pliars out and sort that buggah out)

BOB.T

yep, take some mole grips to it

brickboy

Give it a squirt of WD, let it creep in. Then use a match or lighter CAREFULLY to heat the very tip of the cap for a few seconds. THEN put the mole grips on it

Gridlock Mikey

lol@ Old Fart

I've done the WD 40,pliers thing and it looks/feels like the valve is going to rotate . Maybe time for the Zippo to come out

Mikey

David_Wallis

two pairs of grips then.. hold the valve with one and the cap with the other..

David

MikesWagon

I used to have this problem on my Corrado, used boiling water straight from the kettle - the localised heat thing again, still needed pliers though.

Don't know if I'd like to do this with decent alloys, these were the originals, so bit flaky anyway.

Gridlock Mikey

David, easy when you know how

Mikey Can't believe i didn't think of that

robby

don't forget to put a bit of copperslip on the thread before refitting

jjones

lol waiting for the "Can't open my bonnet" thread.