DRC's VALVE SPRING REMOVAL TOOL FOR 426 HEMI ENGINES
Part #1010H

The scenario might go something like this: You've built a stout Hemi engine for your Mopar and can't wait to "cruise" around on a Saturday night. Cruising might also include a couple "stop light burnouts" to show off for your fans. But on Saturday afternoon you discover a strange miss while warming up your ride. Turns out that high lift camshaft you installed has caused a broken valve spring. With only hours left before your planned "take-off," you figure one of those cheap spring removal tools for changing valve springs with the engine assembled in the car that you pick up at the local parts store ought to do the trick. It's only $29.95 and the package said it would work. With the broken spring easily removed (after all, it had no pressure!), installing the new spring should be easy. The key word there was should!

With three skinned knuckles and one cut hand, not to mention a tool that's bent and resembling more like a strand of spaghetti than what was once something you assumed was a good tool, you still don't have the new spring installed and your Saturday plans are quickly becoming a lost idea. While there are tools available to perform the job in question, most will only work on a stock set of low pressure valve springs. What then is the alternative? Pull the cylinder heads off and use a bench style tool? Certainly not! Do what the pros do and use a tool that's specifically designed for use on a set of high pressure valve springs.

The DRC Valve Spring Removal Tool has been successfully used by a number professional racers over the years and now it's available to bolt directly onto the stock Chrysler 426 Hemi cylinder head. It's manufactured from high strength steel that will stand up to years of service without failure. It won't bend or break, or cause you to use a vocabulary that isn't in too many of Webster's dictionaries. This is the most economical tool you'll ever have and it should be in everyone's toolbox.

To use the tool, simply unbolt the entire rocker and shaft assembly first. Two base units come with the tool, an intake tool (which has a short set of ears), and an exhaust tool (with long ears). The pivot shaft that goes through both tools will span just two rocker stands and bolt right down. You will notice that the pivot shaft is smaller in diameter than the stock shaft, but that's okay, as long as the tool is bolted down to the stock bosses on the head. The pivot shaft is only designed for the tool to rotate around. With the tool mounted in place, you simply line up the ears of the base with the valve spring retainer. A handle (which is supplied) is then slid over the end of the base tool in order to allow for more leverage to change a high pressure spring. Pulling the handle over will allow you to release the spring retainer keepers, although sometimes a small smack with a hammer will be necessary to break the keepers lose. Once the spring is lose, you can remove the tool handle and flip the tool base back and out of the way to facilitate removing the spring and installing the new one. Reversing the procedure gets you back under way in no time flat.

The tool comes complete and ready to use straight out of the box and is yellow zinc plated for long lasting looks. For more information on this or any of DRC's other Valve Spring Removal Tools, contact us today!