I recently bought a motor and it was said that it had 60lb valve springs. Is there any way to tell if it really does have them?

 

pull a valve cover and see if the springs are conical or not

 

Are you planning to run an exhaust brake on it?

 

I wonder if my 96 has the 60 lbs springs?

 

no im not gonna run an exhaust brake but i sometimes hit 4k and i would like them to be in there just to be safe.

"see if the springs are conical or not"
Hmm i got a small mind what the is that?

 

Conical : Relating to or resembling a cone

 

So i guess if they aren't like a cone and are even all the way up like stock, they are stock eh? Some people i tell ya they can really feed ya some bull.

 

I have heard that the 97's had 60lb springs stock. No one seems to know about the 96's though.

 

if 60lb springs look like a cone none of my 97's have had them

 

my heavy duty springs for pdr do not look like a cone

 

Take your engine number to a cummins dealer?

 

dodges never came with them. most have a white strip painted down the side of them. and they are not really cone shaped, i would say more of a slight bee hive shape to them, bigger in the center and smaller on the ends. they have a lot more coils than the stock springs.

 

 

Those springs on the left are what came in my 97 and I can assure you, one look at that pic, they were not 60lbs springs.

 

I am not sure what year 1999 or 2000 came stock with 60lb springs everything older than that were the 35lb springs.