VALVE SPRING COMPRESSORS

Removing valves from a cylinder head is easy if you use the correct valve spring compressor tool. We put five to the test.

Some 25 years after first using a valve spring compressor to help strip down a cylinder head on our first engine rebuild, we can still recall the ease with which it did so. We remember the confidence it gave to continue. That’s the difference between using the correct tool or not. We’d been fretting about how to remove the springs when we got the lucky loan of a valve spring compressor. Our primary concerns were: A, not losing an eye thanks to a shooting spring; and B, not breaking anything in the process. Had we not had the loan, we weren’t in a position to buy a valve spring compressor, so would no doubt have cobbled together some method probably resulting in personal injury or broken components. We saw the…

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Classic Ford (Digital) - 1 Issue, January 2024

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