400/450 stroker....Cheap parts, lotta work.
Here is my homemade valve seal installation tool....
I was forced to make it because the plastic ones I had inherited would destroy the spring around the seal.
Even though the new tool won't ruin the spring I remove them for installation...........
Then re-install them after the seal is in place.....and no that isn't rust on the spring, it is brown paint.
The weenie valve spring compressors I had received in the past from my Pop wouldn't work with some of the 800# springs I would be using so I had to build something a gorilla could use........overkill for this engine but it is fail safe.....
And here we are assembled with the break in springs..............I had my choice of spring retainers laying around, these tool steel ones or titanium, lots of titanium ones. I seen in the past some springs with a flat wound dampers were chewing up the titanium retainers. So as both sets of springs to be run on these heads had flat wound dampers I used the tool steel retainers.
Here is my homemade valve seal installation tool....
I was forced to make it because the plastic ones I had inherited would destroy the spring around the seal.
Even though the new tool won't ruin the spring I remove them for installation...........
Then re-install them after the seal is in place.....and no that isn't rust on the spring, it is brown paint.
The weenie valve spring compressors I had received in the past from my Pop wouldn't work with some of the 800# springs I would be using so I had to build something a gorilla could use........overkill for this engine but it is fail safe.....
And here we are assembled with the break in springs..............I had my choice of spring retainers laying around, these tool steel ones or titanium, lots of titanium ones. I seen in the past some springs with a flat wound dampers were chewing up the titanium retainers. So as both sets of springs to be run on these heads had flat wound dampers I used the tool steel retainers.
