RamlebXJ
NAXJA Forum User
- Location
- Wilmington NC
Well so far everything has been smooooth sailing, stripped the jeep down and had the head pulled in under 4 hours. I've done a clean-up/mild porting on the intake & exhaust manifolds, welded up a pinhole leak on the exhaust manifold, and ceramic coated it with VHT in hopes of getting a little heat off the header.
Now I turned my attention to the cylinder head, had to wait for a freind to let me borrow his valve spring compressor since I'm too much of a tight a$$ to go buy one. I go to remove the valves tonight so I can clean off the head and get it ready for a general cleanup and a mild porting, I blow through removing the first 5 valves, and then the remaining ones didn't want to come loose, at all, the spring will compress but the valve spring retainer doesnt compress with it and let me take the keepers out. I tried about everything short of breaking out a oxyacetyline and cutting them out (which after 45 min & 3 busted knuckles cutting the whole head in half was seeming like a good idea:soapbox I soaked them in PB blaster and called it a night, figured i'll get at them tomorrow after work see it the pb helps at all.
Is there any magic tricks to getting these things out without beating the heck out of myself & the cylinder head? should I hit it up with a torch and see if the heat helps it break loose?
Now I turned my attention to the cylinder head, had to wait for a freind to let me borrow his valve spring compressor since I'm too much of a tight a$$ to go buy one. I go to remove the valves tonight so I can clean off the head and get it ready for a general cleanup and a mild porting, I blow through removing the first 5 valves, and then the remaining ones didn't want to come loose, at all, the spring will compress but the valve spring retainer doesnt compress with it and let me take the keepers out. I tried about everything short of breaking out a oxyacetyline and cutting them out (which after 45 min & 3 busted knuckles cutting the whole head in half was seeming like a good idea:soapbox I soaked them in PB blaster and called it a night, figured i'll get at them tomorrow after work see it the pb helps at all.
Is there any magic tricks to getting these things out without beating the heck out of myself & the cylinder head? should I hit it up with a torch and see if the heat helps it break loose?