thanks for the feedback, I was telling my wifes uncle about the issue and he has the original ford compressor to do the the job, actually has a couple of them, grandpa owned a service station and shop in the 50's to 70's so he has a lot of old tools, grandpa was a horder of that kind of stuff, thank you grandpa

lay the heads on a board ,valves down ,take a deep socket be sur it misses the keepers,smack the socket with a large hamer the keepers will fall out make sur  you ar in a clean area so you can find them,then buy a c clamp compressor to asemble them. dont get carried away with the hamer,experiment with blows ,works great.

Hmmmm....

SOMETIMES the valve spring retainer will be 'stuck' to the valve spring keeper 'lock' assembly.

I've sometimes struck the outer surface of the spring retainer a glancing blow with a brass hammer to break things free before using the 'C' valve spring compressor.

Hope this helps.   


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a.k.a. Charlie Brown
near Syracuse, New York

You don't say what kind of compressor you're trying to use, but the old adjustable C compressor works great.

I m trying to take the valves out of the heads I have and the depressor I purchased wont work, is there a special depressor I have to use for these y block heads? ive got ecz-c heads and there stamped 312 on the front of both of them, again thanks for the help