Where to get air compressor fitting(spark plug) locally?
Where to get air compressor fitting(spark plug) locally? 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)?
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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Originally Posted by bigdsz
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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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.
