valve spring swap
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Instructor
Joined: Oct 2004
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From: Fords NJ
valve spring swap
What kind of valve spring compressor should i get to do this swap? i have afr 205cc heads on the car and ill be using patriot gold dbl springs. Also when i put the valves back on the head do i just tighten the bolts to 24 ft lb's like i read somewere? or do you adjust it like i use to on my older cars tighten the valve until you cant spin the push rod then tighten a half turn?
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From: At the beach in little Rhody
The Crane valve spring tool is the best one out there but it requires modification to work correctly on the AFR head. Why Patriot springs? Why not just get the AFR valve springs straight from AFR? Here is the correct procedure for the rockers. This assumes they have now been correctly shimmed for the AFR heads.
