| admiral1960 | -- 01-10-2013 @ 2:37 PM |
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Is there a tool for compressing valve springs so that the keeper can be removed ? I know there is a bar like tool that compresses the spring but difficult to do one handed and remove the keeper with the other. Is there a tool that compresses the spring and locks in place so that you can remove the keeper and not have to fight the valve spring at the same time ? I used to have one of the bars that my Dad used when he was a mechanic but I gave it to a friend who is moving and does not know its current location. Thanks for any info Allen E Michler AW1, USNR (10 yrs) LTC, TC, USAR (29 yrs)
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| TomO | -- 01-11-2013 @ 7:54 AM |
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Alan, The bar will pull down the valve guide and the horse shoe clip can be removed. Then the spring and guide assembly can be removed. The valve spring keeper can be easily removed once the assembly is out of the engine. If bar will not pull the guide down, you will have to use other methods to remove the assembly, most of which will destroy the valve. The bar is being reproduced. I don't know the best reproduction of the bar as I have an original and a Craftsman that I bought in the 50's. Tom
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| supereal | -- 01-11-2013 @ 10:53 AM |
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You can obtain the valve bar tool from C&G as VGBASR-6510-TOOL from C&G (800/266-0470) $29.95. I've had mine for over 60 years. TomO has given you the best advice. There are lots of valve spring compressors on the market if you need one to remove the keepers. We always replace all valve springs and guide retainers before reassembly.
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| woodiewagon46 | -- 01-11-2013 @ 1:22 PM |
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Admiral, You can view flathead valve and guide removal on "You Tube". I just did a valve job on a flathead and you can get the removal tools from any one of a dozen supply houses. The "horseshoe" usually comes out after the spring tension is relieved. The hard part is usually the removal of the valve guides, sometimes they come out easily and many times they are frozen. They do make a tool that you position around the valve and pound the guide out,but be prepared to cut the valve with a cut off wheel. Remember you can't remove the valve with a frozen valve guide because the valve end is mushroomed. Let us know how you make out.
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| JM | -- 01-12-2013 @ 8:12 AM |
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Alan, I believe this was answered well, including pictures, on your Fordbarn post. On the later 8ba straight stem valves I use the "C" shaped valve spring compressor as shown in those pictures. Most of the early mushroom stem valves that have guides locked in place with years of carbon buildup, I have not had much success with the bar mentioned here by others, as far as getting the valve assemblies out of the block. What seems to work best for me, after removing the "crows foot" shaped keeper at the top of the guides, is a slide hammer tool that I made to snatch those stuck assembles out of the block. This usually destroys some of the parts as they are removed but in most cases I would not have reused these parts anyway. JM
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