How to use spring loaded valve tool

[Naplm00]

Well i bouth this tool on a whim when ordeing some hardware from pelican.


How the hell do you use it? with or without feelers? wtf?

[NC325iC]

with feelers, you slide the end into the hole in the eccentric, than you adjust the valves in a regular fashion, when the spring bends you tighten the nut. its kinda hard to explain

heres a quick drawing

[87-325ic]

the tool just has the spring so it gives the proper pressure to the eccentric. you slip your feeler in, tighten the spring tool to it with its own pressure, then tighten the nut.

its so you keep pressure on the gauge, but not too much.

[Naplm00]

Oh, so you are using the spring tool to set the "slight drag" feeling with out really having to do anything.

THe spring tool is rotating the eccentric against the feeler that the stuck inbetween the rocker and the valve stem...correct?

[Naplm00]

how far do you bend this fucker when you stick it in? like 45 or 90 degrees?

[Nic01101011]

only the trouble is you still have to make a judgement call. even with the tool the clearances can come out too tight or loose

[Naplm00]

ah ok, Ive been doing the valves for years now...thought this may make it easier


kinda does...

[SpecM]

^ hey, where did you get the tool? for how much, if you don't mind me asking? I wouldn't mind having one

[87-325ic]

i thought they were under 20 and i think he said he got it from pelican...

i didnt find the tool making it any easier. as for the amount of bend... whatever looks right, i dont think it pulls too hard no matter how far its flexed

[Naplm00]

got mine from pelican...22 bucks or so

Ill post a report on how well it works after this weekend

ive got to do manifold gaskets and a valve adj


the manifold gaskets are not goin tot be fun