where can i get a valve spring compressor for dual cam honda heads...
10-24-2008, 04:26 AM
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where can i get a valve spring compressor for dual cam honda heads...
ok so i had this guy that was gonna let me borrow his snap on one, but he's flaking out on me.
i need this tool by the end of the weekend.
i'm asking if you guys know where i can go and buy one, besides the snap on truck. or where i can rent one. or any good ideas on how to get the valve springs off a dohc zc without taking off the head.
i know one of you cheap bastards has made one of these before. so please help.
i need this tool by the end of the weekend.
i'm asking if you guys know where i can go and buy one, besides the snap on truck. or where i can rent one. or any good ideas on how to get the valve springs off a dohc zc without taking off the head.
i know one of you cheap bastards has made one of these before. so please help.
10-24-2008, 04:32 AM
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Re: where can i get a valve spring compressor for dual cam honda heads...
Make one like this out of some flat metal and a old socket or whatever.
http://cgi.ebay.com/ebaymotors/valve...mZ200266091607
http://cgi.ebay.com/ebaymotors/valve...mZ200266091607
10-24-2008, 04:38 AM
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Re: where can i get a valve spring compressor for dual cam honda heads...
you know i started to make one a while ago, but never finished it. i have some flat stock and some pipe laying around that would be great.
anyother ideas
anyother ideas
10-24-2008, 04:48 AM
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Re: where can i get a valve spring compressor for dual cam honda heads...
Originally Posted by 88dx
Smack them with a hammer then use zipties to re-install them someone posted a write up doint it that way 
10-24-2008, 04:50 AM
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Re: where can i get a valve spring compressor for dual cam honda heads...
i just read about using the zipties to do it.
you use a lighter to heat them up to get the zipties off.
do you think it would work?
i'm good at ------- ---- up. i really don't want to drop a valve inside the head.
you use a lighter to heat them up to get the zipties off.
do you think it would work?
i'm good at ------- ---- up. i really don't want to drop a valve inside the head.
10-24-2008, 05:15 AM
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Re: where can i get a valve spring compressor for dual cam honda heads...
ok i have done a few toyota heads that have springs that are exposed like the ones in that ebay ad, i use a long vice grips like this one
then i grab on to the retainer, right on the edge of it using the first 1 or 2 teeth on the vice grips
then i just push down and use a magnet to pull the collets out
reinstallation is similiar
i take the collets and put a little grease on them and then push down the spring with the vice grips and just stick the collets to the locks in the valves and then let the spring out
ive seen you pictures so i know your a big guy and you will have no problem doing this.
then i grab on to the retainer, right on the edge of it using the first 1 or 2 teeth on the vice grips
then i just push down and use a magnet to pull the collets out
reinstallation is similiar
i take the collets and put a little grease on them and then push down the spring with the vice grips and just stick the collets to the locks in the valves and then let the spring out
ive seen you pictures so i know your a big guy and you will have no problem doing this.
