[SEL] valve spanner wrenches

[bill at antique-engines.com]

Called tappet wrenches, around here......... I have a set.

> 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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