Fittings such as these, for connecting a compressed air line to the spark plug hole for valve support, are available at most auto parts stores. Occasionally it is necessary or desirable to inspect or ...

If the cylinder heads are on the engine, you will need to add air pressure to the cylinder to hold the valves in place. Our example is the Craftsman 47089 compression test kit using the 14mm long ...

Although the basic purpose of a valvespring is to close the valve while also ensuring that the valvetrain stays in contact with the cam lobe, it must perform this feat under grueling conditions that ...

Those wound-up pieces of high-tensile steel under your rocker arms work so hard closing your valves over millions of cycles that they could probably use a replacement right about now. We're talking ...