99whitews6

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Anyone know of a place that sells the air compressor fitting for holding up the valves during a cam swap? (i.e. napa, checker, carquest)?

shep28

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I saw one at autozone or sears hardware. Call and ask.

bigdsz

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Don't laugh, but it's easier to stick a plastic straw down the spark plug hole of each cylinder and turn the crank over with a socket on the crank bolt till you reach TDC for that piston. I've been doing it for forty years.

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HAMRHEAD

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I was wondering this too, thanks!

BBADWS6

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If you go to sears and buy the compression reader guage it comes apart and you can use the fitting to pressurize your cylinders and check compression if you want.

PREDATOR-Z

TDC method is much safer and need no special tools.
I never felt comfy relying on air to do anything for me.

shep28

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This works well. Used it during my cam install.

Bill Bowling

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I just used the TDC method last week and it worked with no problems.

Bill

my01camaroz28

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This isn't the best method, but why buy the part? During my cam instal I had an air compressor and fitting and for some reason the pressure wasn't enough and the valves still slipped a little. I ended up rotating the crank and put the piston at tdc and then conducted the spring swap. If the valve fell it fell a very short distance and cause me zero problems. i know this isn't the preferred method, but in the driveway, worked ok for me.