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patrickt,
You're right their web site says the tool will work on "most makes".
I guess I'll believe it if I see it. I just find it hard to believe that hand pressure alone is enough to dismantle and assemble a head with significant valve spring pressure. I've done motorcycle heads with two thumbs. But a performance V8?...
Back in the day we used to dismantle heads by holding a deep socket on the spring retainer and whacking it sharply with a good-size hammer. The keepers would pop off the valve stem and the spring and retainer could be removed. Sometimes it took 2 or 3 whacks.
Re-assembly, however, required a C-clamp or other type of spring compressor that exerted much more pressure than could have been done by hand.
Maybe for $700 there is an easier way. I'd love to try it.
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