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Toysrme, I found a toyota mechanic who did the job WITHOUT taking off the heads! All he did was remove the valve covers and overhead cams (cams come off in one unit!) He told me to tell you about this tool, he said alot of Toyota/Lexus mechs don't even know about it but it's saved his a** a bunch of times. Check out this website. www.toyotool.com I just thought you might find it interesting. Thank you for your responses.

Toysrme, I found a toyota mechanic who did the job WITHOUT taking off the heads! All he did was remove the valve covers and overhead cams (cams come off in one unit!) He told me to tell you about this tool, he said alot of Toyota/Lexus mechs don't even know about it but it's saved his a** a bunch of times. Check out this website. www.toyotool.com I just thought you might find it interesting. Thank you for your responses.

Thanks for the reply. To clarify, what I need to replace are the valve stem SEALS. I know I missed that in the subject field up top. Does that change anything?????

I recently purchased a 99 ES300 from a friend who ran into hard financial times. The car needed some work which I had performed. Among the problems was a misfire in cylinder #2. I replaced the spark plugs and coil pack for the whole motor. The car runs great now BUT, it smokes blue at start up for about 40 seconds after sitting for any long period of time. Lots of smoke. It didn't smoke before I did the work. My mechanic says (and I agree) that the problem is the valve stem seals on cylinder 2. My question to everyone here is this. Can he compress the cylinder to perform the seal replacement? If this can be done, he won't have to remove the cylinder head. That would save me a ton of money. If this isn't enough info, let me know and I'll try to clarify more...Thanks for any help you all can give.