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Old 05-31-2010, 02:10 AM
mpolli mpolli is offline
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Originally Posted by KarTek View Post
Agreed, valve seals. You can buy an adapter to apply compressed air to the spark plug hole and keep the valves in place so you can do the job without having to remove the head.
Length of cotton or nylon rope works good also.
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