valve spring compressor

[pie eater]

hey guys. what valve spring compressors do you have in your boxes. i have the briggs, but also need a c style one as well, but the reviews i am reading on amazon for the Lisle 23300 Small Engine Valve Spring Compressor are not very good on a whole, so i was considering getting, KD Tools KDT385 Valve Spring Compressor for Small Overhead and L-Head instead ,but there's no reviews out there.
what do you think about another chapter to the forum for use guys and gals to review our special tools, that cost the earth but don't work as well as they could, and maybe we can help each other to save a few bucks, as i have just bought an actron remote starter to bump over a 1 cylinder 4 cycle engine, and it didn't last 15 seconds, so if someone on the forum had told me this i would have saved $14

[bgsengine]

Hmm. good thought - anybody else think a tool forum is a good idea?

Lisle and KD are bot quite good brands, we've had no problems with either - KD tools is a bit more robust (Most of our torque wrenches are K-D tools, and even some Briggs Special Tools use Lisle and K-D both, re-branded as Briggs. - my Briggs Valve Lapping tool is in a Lisle kit bag.. )

As for the C clamp compressor, ours is a Wilde 600, and no problems there - but we rarely use it - most times getting into valve work here due to labor cost, its cheaper to slap on a head set, and we don't get too many L-Head any more.
- You want to find one with changeable forks rather than a split tip fork universal one - the forks can break if dropped as they are hardened spring steel and quite brittle

[stienut13]

Hi Brian,

I like the tool forum idea.

Jim

[Greyfox]

how about some polls on best commonly used tools?

[mwerles]

If you connected the remote starter directly to the starter,it was lucky to go 15 seconds,they are to be used only to engage the solenoid.If you connected to the small post on the solenoid and it failed,then you bought junk.
Les

[pie eater]

If you connected the remote starter directly to the starter,it was lucky to go 15 seconds,they are to be used only to engage the solenoid.If you connected to the small post on the solenoid and it failed,then you bought junk.
Les

yes les i bought junk. i wasnt trying to push 90 amps through it

[andybcumming112]

I like the tool forum idea.

[wristpin]

Collected a few over the years!


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[plpitts1]

I like the tool forum Idea.

[Carlw]

Collected a few over the years!
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Wristpin, it looks like you raided my tool box, but actually on L head Tec' and Briggs, I find two screw drivers do the best. Not a lot of room in that little valve stem valley to work. That is when I worked. Now I have a lot of tools just laying in my tool box, but they are nice to look at and remember the good days. Carl