The one from crane FTMFW

John

 

HOW TRUE! i have a buddy on here with a STS turbo's 5.3, we have been doing this one up game for a while now. i win!!

that crane tool is the best, hands down. should take about an hour to do the springs with it, just have a strong pen magnet there to catch the locks when the spring compresses... dont want to drop those little boogers down into the head.

other than that, its pretty straight forward. when you get done with it, post it on ls1tech in the sales dept, mine sold for $115 in a day... so i was only out about 20 bucks or so.

good luck buddy!

 

fine choice!

 

I have the Crane Tool, it works great.

 

The Tim's tool blows. When you compress the spring the valve keeper always wants to drift off center, also it doesn't push straight down, it always wants to drift to the right or left. Save yourself a headache and get the crane tool. Trust me, it has to be a million times better than that piece of crap. I used the Tim's and was disappointed.

 

thanks guys...crane tool is on its way!...Ill letcha know how everything went in a couple of weeks when I do the swap...

 

+1 for the Crane tool. Saves time, works great...what more could you want.

 

-1 on tims tool.. good idea but it drifts around and ya gotta use a screwdriver to finally get it centered..hard to lean over the fender doin all this

 

Yeah, I was thankful enough to change the springs on my heads using a workbench. Even at that the tool was horrible. You'd go to tighten down the nut a bit, have to recenter the retainer with the screwdriver just like you said, tighten some more, then it'd slip the wrong way and you'd have to tap it back. I learned putting some grease on the top of the retainer made it easier to work with. I could control the spring and retainer better than if it was dry. Either way, tool sucks. I'd never use it again. I felt bad selling it to a guy on tech.

 

Oh and I almost forgot to add, with the Timmay tool if you don't lay down a thick towel or something over your valve cover sealing surface, it'll gouge that nice machined surface when you go to compress the spring. So you have to lay a thick towel along the edge of the head if you don't want to leave any marks.