I have a chance at getting a smoking deal locally in town on a set of brand new patriot dual gold valve springs with titanium retainers and spring locaters. The only thing is the kit doesn't come with seals (I don't care) and doesn't come with valve locks. Can I reuse the stock style valve locks with these titanium retainers? Who makes the valve springs for patriot anyways?

 

The stock locks should be fine. I'm not sure who makes the springs though.

 

Should be or will be? I can't take any chances for this build. Is there a way to test for sufficient seating of the locks within the retainers?

 

the stock locks wont work with the dual springs, I have a set of locks and retainers from my old patriot dual springs that I will sell ya, send me a pm and we can talk.

 

pm sent

 

I just finished last night installing the Patriot double spring setup on my 6.0L.

And yah, the stock stuff won't work...

 

Hahaha yeah....I was just....uh...kidding about the stock locks.....

Learn something new every day

 

That install was a nightmare for me. The spring compressor I was using did not like to get a good grip on the double spring setup. It did like to fling the spring out and **** me off though. Took like 4 hours to swap 16 springs with the engine out of the truck. So I learned all about the Patriot setup lol.

 

I got the t-shirt for that one!

They are a pain in ***...It would be worth buying one of those spendy valvespring compressors.