Special Tools for rebuilding a 308gt4 engine from 1974

Get yourself a WSM and there will be a listing of special tools for the engine rebuild. Although, many of those are no longer possible to find. Chances are you will have to make some tools yourself.

Some must have tools are:
1. Tool to press out the liners from the block
2. Line bore bar, although any machine shop will be able to do this.
3. The workshop may not call out specific measurement tools but you will need Boring Gauge, Calipers, Outside micrometers
4. Engine stand.
5. 4-prong sockets for the drop gears and for the timing drive gears.

It goes without saying that you need a very healthy supply of good hand tools: sockets, ratchets, wrenches from 6mm up to 36mm.

 

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I would say that the 4-prong sockets would be the first specialized tools that most people would acquire. That being said it assumes that you already have have common hand tools, wrenches, sockets etc., that would be used on any car.

It all depends on how much of the actual work you are going to do vs. send out to a machine shop ("engineering" shop in the UK). You would be well advised to search this site for threads about removing the heads from the block. They are often corroded in place and require some special tools and techniques to remove without damaging them or the block. You may be lucky and not have that problem but being able to recognize it beforehand may save you some expensive grief.

Depending on your expertise and machining experience most of these specialty tools can be fabricated in a home shop equipped with a lathe and milling machine for much less than purchasing them.

If you are unsure about any procedure just ask, there are a lot of people with rebuild experience on this forum that will be happy to answer any questions that you have. Having been working on cars for nearly 60 years I can say that the 308/328 engines are not complicated at all and are pretty easy to work on especially once out of the car. Here is my specialized tool for engine removal, if in doubt rip it out!.


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Where do I get an engine hoist like that?

 

If you call it a ring nut socket the suppliers might actually understand what you are asking for.

Hill Engineering makes them too.

 

Hill Engineering UK site. Ringnut tool 28mm and 45mm.
You also want the valve shim tool
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Actually I only used it to move the engine from my pickup to the basement shop. I have a Bilco door for basement access and use the loader to lower the engine down to an awaiting dolly in the basement. That's why it's hanging by a long chain. The car is in my son's garage and we used a conventional engine hoist to pull the engine from the car. The loader is a 1957 Oliver OC-46, 3k lb. lift capacity, very useful to have around.

 

The only "special" tools I've needed to buy so far were the ring nut socket, valve spring compressor and blind bearing puller.

 

You need three torque wrenches.
5-30Nm probably 1/4 inch one
10-100 Ft-lbs, 3/8 inch one
50-250 ft-lbs probably 1/2 inch one.

I don't think there is an torque angle spec on the 308GT4 so no need for that.

 

Typical tool collection would have 3 tQ wrenches, 1/4", 3/8" & 1/2" drive with the common ranges to them. Beam style preferred.