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Compressor psi during valve spring replacement



Thankxs guys. My rockers are done and boy was they hard to do mainly the springs. Im never doin g it again unless i get a better spring compressor.
 


a valve spring tool can be made for $3 worth of steel and 15 minutes of your time. it's a plate with a slot in it, and a hole for the rocker bolt. tighten it down, pull the lock, loosen it up, etc.

it's easy enough. you don't need an expensive tool to do it right.
 
Bio248 said:
a valve spring tool can be made for $3 worth of steel and 15 minutes of your time. it's a plate with a slot in it, and a hole for the rocker bolt. tighten it down, pull the lock, loosen it up, etc.

it's easy enough. you don't need an expensive tool to do it right.
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Hmm. I guess you could make one but I doubt you could in 15 minutes. Getting the spacing right and stuff would take a longer. I know it is possible but to be honest I think it would be more work than you think. If you have a band saw, drill and taps and some steel laying around I guess it is possible.

Edit- I thought you were talking about making the tool I listed above. Yes you could make that bar design but I have used one and getting at the rear springs is a *****. I know it just takes time and can be done but with this tool you can do two springs at a time/one cylinder at a time.
 
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Bar and slot is the snapon one I have that design works fine. I have used the jaw style also when I had the heads off the car.
 
This autozone POS is what i used. FML.

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Now my hands look and feel like crap smh. It was all worth it though because the new found power from the 1.9 rockers are AMAZINGG!!!

So now that i have L76 springs, i can up my shift points to 6,000 rpm's correct? Whats the highest?
 
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ive got one of those simple ones, worked fine on my 7.6L, i dont see why it would take something overly complicated to do the L67
 
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