Memory test for old auto mechanics

[Steevo]

Ok, this one is for the senior mechanics out there.
The last car engines where you might have used this were produced in about 1950.

Can you identify this tool and its purpose?

 

[Jbullfrog]

That would be a keeper installer / remover. Used to hold the valve spring to get them off the stem.

 

[Steevo]

That would be a keeper installer / remover. Used to hold the valve spring to get them off the stem.

Close enough. Another tool actually holds the spring, and these aid in installing keepers in flat head engines, where you are working "upside down".

I actually have five of them, three made by Sunnen, and two Blue Point.

The Blue Point units have a rather detailed set of instructions on the handle:

Anyone working on flat heads that needs one, let me know.

 

[930dreamer]

A friend has a few 8's and a 6, what are you asking for one?

 

[customsbyjason]

id like to have one i love flathead engines how much you want for one?

 

[Steevo]

PM me, so we don't violate any forum rules.

 

[snapmom]

another test.

 

[Steevo]

Are those siamese pliers something used with a lanyard through the handles for working where dropping might be hazardous?

 

[bgott]

1950? Chrysler still built flathead six engines in '59, maybe later in industrial applications. Also, the French military used flathead Ford V-8's through the '80's. Don't forget the Continental Red Seal engines, when did they quit building those?

Was that the test?

http://www.reds-headers.com/html/ffh.html

 

[55Savoy]

Hell Chrysler (Dodge Truck) used the flathead Six until 1973 in the Power Wagons

 

[hat57hat]

Was the sunnen tool only for flatheads? How was it used?

 

[woody 73]

snapmom you have me stumped first time ever seeing a tool like that?

 

[Craptain]

Side valve engines were used in boats up till the 80's. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Universal_Atomic_4

 

[NC-Fordguy]

Willys offered the flat head until the mid 1960s. You can still find those engines in use for agricultural use today. Damn things run forever

 

[NC-Fordguy]

snapmom you have me stumped first time ever seeing a tool like that?

x2...

I give up on that one

 

[toomanytoyzz]

another test.

Bomb squad pliers. Pull the green wire using the pliers on the left while simultaneously cutting the red wire with the cutters on the right. Wait....or was it hold the red wire and snip the green? Tick, tock, tick, tock.

 

[Lookin4'67Galaxieconv]

I actually have five of them, three made by Sunnen, and two Blue Point.

That's why I can't find any!

 

[e30bradley]

I worked on a 31 model A today.. flathead 4.

 

[TwoInch]

snapmom as been posting that plier thing since 2008 at least.

ever figure it out?

 

[Plombob]

Those pliers have to be the strangest tool I've seen. If they didn't say S-O I'd think it was someone's get-rich-quick pipe dream.

I've got one of those Blue Points. I was gonna try it out reinstalling keepers on a 5.0 Ford.

 

[Zelatore]

Side valve engines were used in boats up till the 80's. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Universal_Atomic_4

Kohler's gas marine gens were flat heads at least until '89, maybe a year or two later. Actually pretty good units; fairly quiet running even without a sound shield.