Maintaining Your Forge Dump Valves
As with any car part, maintaining your forge dump valves is an important part of keeping your car running. Not everybody knows how to work with forge dump valves, so here are a few tips to help you through the process. If you have a competent motor mechanic, you may feel that this information is not meant for you, but it is always useful to know what is being done to prevent you from being ripped off.
The obvious first step is to remove the valve. Then you need to place it on some newspaper (or another absorbent paper to protect your work area) and make sure that you’re working on a flat surface.
Next you will need an Allen key to remove the top of the valve. Make sure that you contain the spring inside the valve. If you don’t apply enough pressure, the spring could come loose and rocket across the room. If you’re not careful it could injure you quite badly.
Once you’ve got the top off, carefully remove the spring, the piston and any other components. Wipe each component clean with a cloth making sure that you remove all the old grease.
Now you can add the new grease to everything and prepare to replace the components. Before you put them back, it is important that you test each component thoroughly to make sure that it is still in working order. Once you’re satisfied, put all of the components back into the valve.
When replacing the valve’s top you need to make sure that you replace the screws evenly – i.e. on opposites sides until all of them are in place. You also need to make sure that the spring stays straight.
Now the valve is ready to be replaced. Once replaced you need to test drive your car to make sure that this part works well and to specification.
It does happen that the car can flutter a little bit when a new valve has been put in. This means that the spring coding is probably wrong and that the internal spring is either too strong or too weak. When you buy your forge dump valves, make sure that you buy the correct colour coding to avoid any problems with your car.
As with any component of a car, it is important to clean and service your forge dump valve regularly to prevent old grease from becoming sticky and affecting the performance of the car. The forge dump valve is an important part of your car’s performance and you certainly don’t want to neglect it at the cost of the performance that you require from your car.