The age of tinkering/repair skills are coming back and you and many others here on YT are leading the charge! This looks a lot easier than I thought it would be! Thanks!

You have made my life whats left of it easy. I use to get stressed removing the valves on these engines which is not good for my age of 72. I have similar engine to work on.  THANK YOU

This is exactly the trick I was looking for to save myself $30 for a tool I may only use once! Great job ! Thanks!

mind blown. I have the correct tool but this was SO much easier!

Clever thinking, I will have to improvise one using a screwdriver

I have watched many YouTube videos with people struggling to remove the retainers using screwdrivers but as you showed in your thumbnail QUICK AND EASY especially for someone that knows what they are doing and buddy YOU KNOW WHAT YOU ARE DOING!

That is amazing!  you're a genius!  I already have the trim tool and a Dremel.  Now all I need is the ambition to rebuild my tiller engine.  Thanks!

That tool you made is very handy. You can buy them and they do not cost much. They are called a push pry tool or a push rivet tool or plastic trim clip tool. They are used to take off the plastic the pop rivets that hold mud guards on the bottom of car engine.

genius use of the wood trim tool

Saved me buying the £38 tool from Briggs. Already have several of these trim tools in my workshop.

Automotive trim clip removal tool. It's not for wooden trim, it's for round  plastic trim clips under hood and inside fender wells.

small gems like this 👌🏼 this channel just keeps on giving

You’ll really a good teacher and should be teaching in high schools or trade schools
Thank you for sharing information

I want to thank you greatly for this video. I am an auto mechanic so I expected the cone shaped keepers that car engines have. I was about to order a valve spring tool online when I got the idea to look for possibly other options. Yours was the first I looked at. I have a trim removal tool for car interiors that looks just like the tool you used. I had to figure out which way the cap had to go to get it off. When I reinstalled the valve just tilting the cap toward the inside of the engine engaged the keeper. I have just started a Hahn/Tecumseh 6ph engine for the first time in about 20 years. It has sat out in my yard all that time. I am taking time to restore it. Thanks again!

Amazing. Thank you! What’s great as I already have one of those tools. I bought it as a plastic auto trim removal tool, which is what it was marketed as. Now I don’t have to buy anything to remove those valves!

The price of this tool competes with two tools at this time. It should be gold plated to match the price of others hahahaha. Thanks again Jake for your brilliant ideas and your videos. God bless

Wait, what?  Princess Auto?  Canada?  WOW, Alright !!!!  I came across your video because I might try to fix my daughter's snow blower with broken exhaust valve spring (Tecumseh HMSK80).  Actually, it used to be MY snow blower, which is why I now feel obliged to fix it.  Excellent videos, thank-you.  Now a subscriber.  I can't believe how many times you took apart and reassembled the top end/valves on the full John Deere snow blower valve job video.  Too bad Port Colborne is a fair distance from Eastern Ontario.  Excellent descriptions and teaching.  Thank-you.

Dude!! Brilliant tool hack! Thanks so much. 😊

Clear comprehensive explanation.. I was able to slip a small open-ended wrench underneath and got em sprung.

Very cool that you happen to make this video now. I happen to be working on the exact same blower was starting to think I had the only one in existence. Lol.