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07-26-2010, 05:30 PM | #1 |
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Fe290 Valve Springs 1996 Club Car
Hello, All. I'm wanting to check my valve springs to see if they need replacing and I've never done this before. Do I need to remove the head? Also, will a universal type valve spring compressor work for this job (I don't want to pony up the money for the Club Car tool.) Also, what do I need to put it all back together besides a new head gasket? Does the head gasket get some kind of silicone or other goo before reassembly? Any help is appreciated.
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07-26-2010, 11:26 PM | #2 |
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Re: Fe290 Valve Springs 1996 Club Car
My brother figured this out for me. Put piston at a low point, feed a bunch of 1/4" nylon cord into the cylinder and then put piston back up and compress the nylon cord against the valves. Then you can compress the valves springs by hand and pull them off. Worked great!
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07-27-2010, 06:58 AM | #3 |
Happy Carting
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Re: Fe290 Valve Springs 1996 Club Car
And did the new springs make an improvement?
As ingenious as this sounds, I'm curious why you did this? |
07-27-2010, 11:12 AM | #4 |
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Re: Fe290 Valve Springs 1996 Club Car
Usually this "old school" trick is to allow replacement of the valve stem oil seals without removing the head Scotty. Valve spring breakage is rare unless you are running very high rpm's and weakening of the springs through extremely high temperatures is rarer still. A more modern method of retaining the valves in position is to add compressed air through the plug hole via an adapter.
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07-27-2010, 09:28 PM | #5 |
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Re: Fe290 Valve Springs 1996 Club Car
Scotty,
I did it to remove the springs and check their specs to see if they needed replacement (they're fine.) I'm trying to exhaust every avenue to get some more power out of my engine and I thought the springs might be worn since it has about 2300 hours on it. Steve |
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