93 Splash in SC, V8-Swap version

[lil_Blue_Ford]

I had to take the heads off of my 5.0 because I broke bolts. Easier to move a head around to work on extracting bolts than a whole motor. I went ahead and cleaned off the carbon plus lapped the valves while it was apart but my original plan had been to leave the heads on and just do valve seals. I have a leak down tester so I can put pressure into a cylinder to hold the valves up while doing that.

 

[bobbywalter]

if i am doing seals i tend to use hose or rope method.

 

[scotts90ranger]

If you're lucky and your compression tester has the same quick connect fitting as your air compressor just take the valve core out of the end of the compression tester hose (very important step lol) and air up the cylinder (on TDC or BDC) and change the seals that way if doing it with the heads on.

 

[bobbywalter]

at least lock the engine in the piston up position when using air..i have a tool for the LS that makes that easy....pops on the starter holes and grabs the ring gear...i have made similar tools for the windsors though with a strap and a weld nut......pulling seals has dropped more than one valve wrasslin around on me..

.just doing a spring swap air is way easier....


but for seals...the blue soft fuel line tends to be my favorite go to now over rope.......it is a pia compared to air but you can get stupid on seal extraction and not worry about deep diving for valves.

if you plan on spinning the engine or a future cam/rocker ratio upgrade those springs definitely need replaced...

but for your goals she may be just fine...you will be fairly conservative with rpm i would guess.