Hello, John Talley here with partzilla.com. Today I want to show you one of my new favorite
tools from Motion Pro. It is a valve spring compressor-- specifically it's the T-6 edition
of their valve spring compressor: all aluminum body, really nice unit, very easy to work with.
Now for years I've been using just the OEM type one from Honda. And it works well,
but it is clunky compared to the Motion Pro. So what I'm going to do now is remove a couple
of valves from the head over at the vise to show you just how easy this one is to use.
What we're going to do is remove a valve from our CRF450 head, and let's start off with the one from
Honda. Now each person has their own technique. I prefer to put the compressor inside of a vise.
So let's get her in place with the OEM one. You bring it up to the face of the valve
and then bring this down to actually compress the spring.
Typically I use a magnet to get these guys out. Now I'm not saying that this is a bad unit,
but I think you'll see when we bring the Motion Pro over here the other one's just
easier to work with mainly because of that lever action, combined with more access down
at the the top of the valve stem itself. Show you a little trick for getting these keepers back in.
Small screwdriver, a little bit of grease, makes it easier to maneuver around.
I think we've got one. And one's sitting down, and the other one hasn't-- i don't know if you
can see in there, but see how that other one didn't seat yet? So bring it back down,
push it against the valve.
All right, now it caught.
Not impossible, but not really really super easy. So let's bring over the Motion Pro
and I'll show you how it works. I know over time I'm going to end up beating this thing up, but
it's too new and shiny to scratch it up just yet.
So let's go after that same valve. Bring it down, one, and two. All right,
they're out. Same technique for getting it back in. A little bit of grease.
There's one.
There's two.
Now we just bring up the release.
Things looking a little out of shape. We've actually can get our fingers in there.
There it is. It's that simple. I think they really built a winner here.
One of the big advantages it has-- other than the quick release system--
is the heads that it uses to push down are actually open, and this gives you so much
more access to reach in take out those keepers and then get them back in place.
So alright guys, there you go. There's no question which one I would rather use, and depending on
the size valves that you're working with, they've got different attachments just pop off
and pop on. Really simple to use. Well listen, if you need these tools or any other parts for
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