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**Goat Blower** · 04-08-2006

Actually, if you've got the arm strength, you might be able to compress the springs by hand with the head in the car. You'd have to have the valves pressed into the head via some rope on top of the piston, or a lot of compressed air in the cylinder. Easier to just take the head off and do it right. Get a metal headgasket, they're reuseable.

04-08-2006	#6
Goat Blower aka Goodbye Asteroids Champion! Beach Squirter Champion! Join Date: Oct 2003 Location: under the car Drives: Taylor Made R15 Posts: 7,765	Re: Changing valve springs with head on the car Actually, if you've got the arm strength, you might be able to compress the springs by hand with the head in the car. You'd have to have the valves pressed into the head via some rope on top of the piston, or a lot of compressed air in the cylinder. Easier to just take the head off and do it right. Get a metal headgasket, they're reuseable. __________________ 2009 Corvette Z51-SOLD 1992 Mitsubishi Eclipse GSX-SOLD 2013 BMW Z4-Current summer hooptie 2017 GMC Yukon-Current winter hooptie