Anybody ever have this happen...(patriot gold)?
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Anybody ever have this happen...(patriot gold)?
this is/was a patriot gold spring...
you people wouldnt believe me without pics so.. there they are. it happened because it somehow came out of that spring compressor im using. blah...
Ps- the ti retainer went off i some other direction and i cant find it thank god it didnt hit me...410lbs of pressure on somtehing that light flying through the air wouldve done some damage.
you people wouldnt believe me without pics so.. there they are. it happened because it somehow came out of that spring compressor im using. blah...
Ps- the ti retainer went off i some other direction and i cant find it thank god it didnt hit me...410lbs of pressure on somtehing that light flying through the air wouldve done some damage.
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Originally Posted by GregWS6&z28
did you completely bind the spring???? most people elect to not use that compressor on our cars
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Whats wrong with it? The inner spring looks like it came out a bit, but all you have to do it push it back in. They are connetcted together. I personally wouldnt use one of those types compressor. I made my own out of 1/4 steel to prevent that happeing.
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Originally Posted by Z'mnypit
Whats wrong with it? The inner spring looks like it came out a bit, but all you have to do it push it back in. They are connected together. I personally wouldnt use one of those types compressor. I made my own out of 1/4 steel to prevent that happening.
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Originally Posted by Wnts2Go10O
this is/was a patriot gold spring...
you people wouldnt believe me without pics so.. there they are. it happened because it somehow came out of that spring compressor im using. blah...
Ps- the ti retainer went off i some other direction and i cant find it thank god it didnt hit me...410lbs of pressure on somtehing that light flying through the air wouldve done some damage.
you people wouldnt believe me without pics so.. there they are. it happened because it somehow came out of that spring compressor im using. blah...
Ps- the ti retainer went off i some other direction and i cant find it thank god it didnt hit me...410lbs of pressure on somtehing that light flying through the air wouldve done some damage.
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PM sent. If there is no damage to the spring, slide it back in and re-install. If you are now missing a retainer let us know. Let Z and Guits said, that is not the best compressor to be using.
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I used a similar compressor on my Crane Cams dual springs. I had to use one hand to hold the arms down and the other to turn the bolt. They popped loose a couple times, but I got the job done.
The next time I opted to learn from that experience, though, and used a tool that bolts to the valve cover bolt holes.
The next time I opted to learn from that experience, though, and used a tool that bolts to the valve cover bolt holes.
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Originally Posted by Gauge
I used a similar compressor on my Crane Cams dual springs. I had to use one hand to hold the arms down and the other to turn the bolt. They popped loose a couple times, but I got the job done.
The next time I opted to learn from that experience, though, and used a tool that bolts to the valve cover bolt holes.
The next time I opted to learn from that experience, though, and used a tool that bolts to the valve cover bolt holes.
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Originally Posted by Wnts2Go10O
well... i did use the crane tool on my dads ss but the l92s holes are further apart. hey gunnar, i think a note should be added to the gold spring kits: "we do not recommend use of xxxxx spring tool"
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yeah, definatly wrong tool, that's why i opted to pull the heads off completly when i did a cam swap on my friends formula last weekend, made putting the dual golds on a lot easier, and i used one of those huge c-clamp/vice grip pliar combination things (technical term right there ) to compress the spring and do it right....
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Biggest problem with that compressor, other than it isn't very good, is it will scratch the springs. Many of the high performance springs have surface treatments such as nitriding and the surface must not be damaged with any type of scratch. If you scratch them you could have problems later with a shorter spring life.
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like everyone said just push it back in there and reinstall. I just took the tabs and welded a slight extention on it and it worked great, changed eight springs in less then 45 minutes. before that i took almost 2 hours to change the other 8 springs.
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Originally Posted by Cop Car
a cut flat piece of steel, some threaded bar and a nut is all you need for a spring compressor
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a cut flat piece of steel, some threaded bar and a nut is all you need for a spring compressor
Originally Posted by SiL3NtXWS6
yeah, until you break off a bolt in the rocker hole. It's happened to me twice with 2 different tools.