Hey guys im doing my valve stem seals amd was just wondering how do I tell which valve is intake and which is exhaus.

 

If you look at your heads you can see which valve goes to an intake port or and exhaust port. On our engines they valves are setup as follows. From the front of the engine Exhaust/Intake-Intake/Exhaust-Exhaust/Intake-Intake/Exhaust. This is one head on one side. It is laid out the same on the other side.

 

Yea that's what o figured I just wanted to here it frok someone else so not to mess up the seals. If you have done this repair can you tell me what to if spring is compressed and valve still not out enough to get the little clips out

 

Need to have something in the cylinder to hold the valves closed. Can use high pressure air, or, a length of rope. (for air, just run the cylinder to TDC, and apply pressure. for rope, get is most of the way there, stuff the rope in, then run it to TDC. Dropping a valve into the cylinder sucks. )

If you can't compress the valve spring enough to get the keepers out, re-set your spring compressor, and try again. It's an easy job, just tedious. (10 bucks in parts, 7-9 hours in labor.....)