SINGLE HANDED VALVE SPRING COMPRESSOR

[Spliffotticle]

Make one for like... a dollar? I took the pics MYSELF while using it. You take a piece of unistrut (my fellow electricians know what I'm taklin bout) and a rocker post. Bada-bing bada-boom that's it. takes about a minute per spring unless you are like me and lose everything, all the time

[jbxx]

Give a sparky a piece of strut and he will ( fill in the blank).
32 yrs IBEW here!
J.B.

[cruiser54]

Add a coupla old tranny pan magnets near the hole and maybe you wouldn't lose the collets?

[johnhalabama]

If your stripping the head a big socket and a rubber mallet will do the trick if your going for fast.

[SilverXJ]

I think he was taking the valve springs off while the head was on the engine. I would be afraid thath the socket and hammer trick would push a valve open.

[amcinstaller]

likely it would, but alot of guys i know like to stuff the cylinder full of shoelaces or somethin similar with the piston at TDC when doing this. that may help the locks pop out from the valve stem.

[SilverXJ]

I actually prefer to shove some clean rope down the cylinder and cramming the piston close to TDC over using air. Because if air grabs a lose valve all hell could break loose. But air is faster and easier... rope is safer.

[amcinstaller]

did anyone else notice the obvious spam bot post that message up there?

[GoMopar440]

Yea, but I try to ignore them.

And for the love of all that is holy, I hope nobody here NEVER EVER clicks on any links in those types of posts. It's just like feeding the trolls. Once someone does click a link, more of them invaribly show up.

Best bet would be to hit the little triangle with the exclamation point inside it above the spam post and report it. The posts will get removed by the mods and the spammers account deleted. Doing this, without making a fuss about it, brings less attention to their posts. The attention of people that will click links out of curiosity is what the spammers are usually after.

BTW: Good idea for making your own valve compressor. You can take an old spark plug and break off the upper porceline part and hollow it out. If you're carefull, you can then hollow it out and drill and tap it to take a air hose fitting. Screw it into the spark plug hole and then you can pump air into the cylinder to hold the valve up while you pull the retainers and locks off the stem.

[SilverXJ]

Sorry, I missed one. If you do see one that we missed please hit the upside down triangle with the red exclamation pint in it to report the post.

[IH 392]

Compressed air does a fine job of keeping the valves shut also.

[amcinstaller]

yea, i think it would as long as everything still holds pressure in the combustion chamber.

lol, at another forum i go to we have a bad habit of moving all the spam posts into one thread and make fun of them.

[Spliffotticle]

I have to admit, I have never considered shoving shoelaces into my combustion chamber. However, the kind of air leak needed to lose a valve (whilst using compressed air) would indicate you have bigger issues than valve springs. I have an air fitting hooked up to the spark plug hole. I do give a light, solid tap to the tops if the keepers seem stuck, but not like I do @ the junkyard with the aforementioned techniques of sockets and mallets. Of course, I never use any stems involved in my tornadic disassembly. You know when it's happening though. Springs dropping from the sky in remote locations is a dead giveaway that somewhere, somebody is in a hurry.