[SEL] valve spanner wrenches

[Steve W.]

Most of the valve spanner wrenches were for adjusting the valve 
clearance in engines that used solid lifters and lock nuts for the 
adjustments. You wanted thin profile wrenches so that you could fit them 
in there along with the feeler gauge.

For lapping the valves with holes or slots in the face most of the 
reciprocating valve tools come with interchangeable tips. Usually a 
couple of the rubber cups and the valve keys that fit the holes or slots 
on those valves. I have a bunch of them in the tool box that fit a lot 
of different valves.

Milo wrote:
> Tom, I've not heard them called "valve spanner wrenches",
> but, absolutely, the holes, and slots, in the valve face are for lapping
> tools. The two I'm familiar with are the "round stick with rubber cup on the
> bottom", and the "right angle drive oscillating type" (it is cranked by hand
> like a hand drill, and has either a spade type or spanner type blade to
> engage the valve). The round wooden "stick" with the rubber cup, is simply
> spun back and forth with the palms of your hands.
> 
> Peace
> Milo Holroyd
> Kalamazoo, MI
> 
>> Subject: [SEL] valve spanner wrenches
>>
>> Would these tools be used to lap the old valves?  Some valves had slots and
>> some had spanner holes that may be compatible to these tools.  Just a guess
>> on
>> my part.
>>
>>
>> Tom Schmutz
>> Concord, Va.
>> Germoamer at aol.com
>>


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