Valve seal Recommendation(s)

Has anyone found a spring compressor which works with the rocker in place?
(without having to remove the spindle)

Difficult to tell from the dark photo, but it looks like this one does:?

elefantrider said:

Has anyone found a spring compressor which works with the rocker in place?
(without having to remove the spindle)

Difficult to tell from the dark photo, but it looks like this one does:?

Old Britts, Valve Spring Compressor by Motion Pro

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Yes I have mine for years , It's aluminum body without those nuts or screw rings and has both side gaps open to grab the keepers with tiny tweezers/pliers/surgical clamps.

Torontonian said:

Yes I have mine for years , It's aluminum body without those nuts or screw rings and has both side gaps open to grab the keepers with tiny tweezers/pliers/surgical clamps.

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I like to use a small magnet to remove the valve keepers. Snap On [and others] make a great little tool. It's an aluminum tube, thinner than a pencil. At one end is a device to hold your ignition points screw, to greatly ease installing new ignition points. The other end has a magnet. It's nice and small and will fit in the limited space available. See

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Torontonian said:

Yes I have mine for years , It's aluminum body without those nuts or screw rings and has both side gaps open to grab the keepers with tiny tweezers/pliers/surgical clamps.

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It works on the intake side with the rocker/shaft in place?

elefantrider said:

It works on the intake side with the rocker/shaft in place?

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Oh yes , It's very old just like me.

Ludwig has a write up on removing seals/springs with head still on bike using homemade tools. Ive used it to do my seals and spring R&R. Basically you support valve from dropping by several methods. I did it by feeding rope into sparkplug hole until it fills up cylinder to support valve. Then the rocker shaft is removed and a smaller dia$eter rod feed in to support the rocker and washers. Then a bit of stock flat, bent into a "n" shape, is threaded to rocker threaded section and this presses the spring down via an adjuster nut.
Heres a thread on this:

Thread 'Valve spring compressor with head on?' https://www.accessnorton.com/NortonCommando/valve-spring-compressor-with-head-on.27016/
Worked pretty well.