| Re: Broken valve spring, again... Why? |
Subject: Re: Broken valve spring, again... Why? by Dale1990 on 2010/4/13 14:21:44 Thanks for the info guys! I'll see if I can get one of the good ones removed and give it to a machine shop for a pressure test (unless they charge more than the tool will cost). What info will they need to know - just the installed height and the max lift? That would basically be the closed pressure and open pressure, right? I guess I'll have to pick up the valve micrometer to get those values. I'll take a good look (and pics) at the rocker and valve tip to see if anything is amiss there, too. Since I'll have to rotate the engine anyway, I'll try throwing a feeler in there and see if anything is obvious. For removing the springs, any recommendations/tips? I've done it with the pry-bar style (like this) and it went OK. Would one like this be easier? When I did this last time I had the head off the car and used the big c-clamp-looking thingy which was really easy. PeteK, you're impression is spot on. I'm just a little shaky on what I'm doing so I'm asking a lot of questions  EDIT: Churchkey, thanks for looking up the cam specs! I'm going to see if the cam sheet from the "tuner" is still around in the files and see if that matches - hopefully it does so we have some good numbers to work with. |
