Good Old Gunsons

[Sprocket]

I just wish here to recommend a tool manufacturer who I have found very useful in the past when working on basic machinery, that manufacturer is Gunson, and they make tools for specialist uses at an affordable price. I first came across them when I restored a 1955 Land-Rover, their Eezilap
electric drill powered valve lapping tool I found very useful for lapping the hardened valves into their seats on a rover side valve engine. That old motor was designed to run on rougher fuel than we had available, so the motor was tuned with the Gunson's Colortune tool, the ignition flame colour gave the best running possible on the old four star fuel. I later used that device and the Eezilap for my job when servicing and repairing Honda single cylinder four stroke air cooled motors as fitted to construction site plant, the machines always had the reports that they ran very well, and more importantly, reliably. I became hooked on the Gunson products, they had proved their worth to me and for my later running restoration on the air cooled VW camper, I again used Gunsons, their diagnostic multimeter, Hi-guage, Lo-guage, (which ended up fitted to the vehicle in the cockpit to monitor economy) and finally, the Clickadjust tappet adjuster, totally invaluable when having to adjust VW engine valve to rocker clearances, it makes the job so much less onerous, (Ugh, memories of lying on cold roads in winter adjusting the tappets, with oil dripping from the tappet housing onto ones face).

I also had the Eezibleed brake bleeder, but I managed to wreck that one when I used the bottle for something else and then lost the fittings.

It strikes me, these machines that we have, they being rather basic, which I do like, my Gunsons tools will be seeing the light of day again, especially for maintenance, the tappet adjuster, and the colortune at least, maybe later, the Hi guage, Lo guage and the diagnostic tester if I am unlucky.

I don't work for Gunsons, nor do I have any reason to spread the word about their tools except for the fact, that they work and work well and are fairly cheap to buy, even ebay, the older incarnations are cheap, and just as effective.

( Err, I just noticed the tappet adjuster I have is not going to be of much use with these engines, I guess I will have to do it the hard way)