Tim's Valve Spring Tool Now Available
04-22-2012, 08:38 PM
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Curious. I have a older one oretty sure the "orginal" Have used it many many many times.
Mine has a angled hole in the solid piece od metal. Only angled on the one side. I see this one dosen't .
Is there a difference?
Mine has a angled hole in the solid piece od metal. Only angled on the one side. I see this one dosen't .
Is there a difference?
04-22-2012, 08:56 PM
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Khris99s,
You have one of my tools as I chamfer the bottom of the hole to give some additional angle if needed for tall springs. All of my tools have this and glad to hear the tool is working well for you time and time again.
Thanks for the question,
Tim
You have one of my tools as I chamfer the bottom of the hole to give some additional angle if needed for tall springs. All of my tools have this and glad to hear the tool is working well for you time and time again.
Thanks for the question,
Tim
08-22-2012, 09:08 AM
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Decadence,
I am pretty sure I know what happened. Before the use of the valve spring tool, you must use a deep well socket and hammer and smack the top of the retainers to loosen the keepers. If you do not do this before starting, the tool has to work 2 to 3 times harder to start compressing the spring. I see this time and time again with others who have not done this before using the tool. As crazy as it sounds, the tool did do its job as we use a special alloy steel that if the tool starts to get over loaded by the compressing force, it will start to bend. Think of it as an insurance policy because if the tool did not bend and you continued to compress the tool the next thing that will happen is the threads in the head could get damaged and then you are really screwed.
What I tell people to do when this happens, take the tool and straighten it back flat, and then take a deep well socket and hammer and go and hit the top of the retainers with a good solid blow, not a light tap. Once this is done make sure to oil or grease the stud threads and use the tool again and the tool will work fine. Our tool has been tested on every spring combo out there and worked great on all of them.
Hope this helps and if there are any other questions just send me a PM and we can go from there.
Thanks,
Tim
I am pretty sure I know what happened. Before the use of the valve spring tool, you must use a deep well socket and hammer and smack the top of the retainers to loosen the keepers. If you do not do this before starting, the tool has to work 2 to 3 times harder to start compressing the spring. I see this time and time again with others who have not done this before using the tool. As crazy as it sounds, the tool did do its job as we use a special alloy steel that if the tool starts to get over loaded by the compressing force, it will start to bend. Think of it as an insurance policy because if the tool did not bend and you continued to compress the tool the next thing that will happen is the threads in the head could get damaged and then you are really screwed.
What I tell people to do when this happens, take the tool and straighten it back flat, and then take a deep well socket and hammer and go and hit the top of the retainers with a good solid blow, not a light tap. Once this is done make sure to oil or grease the stud threads and use the tool again and the tool will work fine. Our tool has been tested on every spring combo out there and worked great on all of them.
Hope this helps and if there are any other questions just send me a PM and we can go from there.
Thanks,
Tim