Glenn,
I haven't looked closely at a spit 1500, but on the
pushrod 1400 datsun motor that's in my spit, it was not
too difficult. I bought a cheapy tool at my local auto parts
store. It grabs the top and bottom coils of the sping and sqishes
it together. Then you can extract the keepers and spring. Of course,
while your doing this, you don't want to drop the valve into
the cylinder. On the mine, I think I just made sure that
the piston in question was at the top of its stroke. Manuvering
the tool into position was the dificult part, if I remember
correctly.
(It turned out that the valve seat had come completely
loose from the head, chewing a big hole in it, so I ended
up replacing the head anyway. But that's another story.)
Glenn Trunnell wrote:
>
> Hey everone,
>
> I think that I've got the annoying miss in my '79 narrowed down to a weak
> valve spring. I've done the test where you hold a dollar bill over the
> tail pipe and it snaps up against the pipe. I had a valve job done about
> 300 miles ago but unfortunately didn't replace the springs. The
> compression is good on all cylinders so I don't believe that I have a
> burned exhaust valve, I also tried increasing the clearance on the rockers
> with no benefit. I have been told that you can replace the springs without
> removing the head provided that you use an air compressor to keep the
> valves seated while you remove the keepers and springs. Is there a valve
> spring tool that will allow you to compress the springs while the head is
> on the block? Has anyone ever tried this? Any advice will be greatly
> appreciated.
>
> Thanks as always,
> Glenn
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