August 26th, 2014, 12:14 AM
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Senior Member
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Join Date: Jan 2013
Location: Green Valley, east of Rapid City,SD
Truck: I have 4 GMCs, none with a V-6 - YET! Have had 2 in the family.
Age: 67
Posts: 553
Rep Power: 210
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Re: GMCDAC's GMCs
Hey all, I don't know if this will be of interest, but I have had to build a set of heads recently for my '72 GMC (SBC sorry!) and I never really liked my old valve spring compressor. I remembered seeing pics of one that someone built out af a c-clamp years ago and decided to copy that idea. I had an 8" clamp and a 1/2" pipe coupling. Holes were ground in both sides of the coupling and then it was tack welded to the stationary end of the clamp. It worked real well and there is plenty of room to install the seal and retainers through the holes in the coupling. Here are a few pics.
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Doug Crawford
Rapid City, SD
1970 GMC K5 Jimmy Mom drove 30 years
1972 GMC C2500 owned since 1979
1955 GMC 100 driver-project
2006 GMC Yukon Denali---wife's truck
Hope to have a '60 GMC Suburban again someday
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