I picked up two interesting tools for free from a lady when I bought my metal band saw - these were sitting in the 'trash' bin to be thrown away, so I took 'em but don't know what they are:

Mystery tool 1:





Mystery tool 2:


Can I use any of them on my Benz?!

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1987 Mercedes 300SDL; SOLD
1985 Mercedes 300D; SOLD
2006 Honda Pilot - wife's ride; 122K;
1995 Toyota Land Cruiser - 3X locked; 182K

First 2 pics are valve spring compressors. Third pic looks like a piston ring groove cleaner.

Sixto
87 300D

The valve spring compressor looks like one for an old inline flathead straight four six or eight. This task was commonly done with the engine in the chassis, since the valves were in the block instead of the head as is now the case.

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..I also have a 427 Cobra replica with an aluminum chassis.

Ohhhh spring compressors - I thought you'd bought them from a really scary gynecologist...

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1992 W201 190E 1.8 171,000 km - Daily driver
1981 W123 300D ~ 100,000 miles / 160,000 km - project car stripped to the bone
1965 Land Rover Series 2a Station Wagon CIS recovery therapy!
1961 Volvo PV544 Bare metal rat rod-ish thing

I'm here to chat about cars and to help others - I'm not here "to always be right" like an internet warrior



Don't leave that there - I'll take it to bits!

Can I use any of them on my Benz?! If not... I'll probably sell them on CL or eBay - are they worth anything? Guessing they are pretty common tools, right?

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1987 Mercedes 300SDL; SOLD
1985 Mercedes 300D; SOLD
2006 Honda Pilot - wife's ride; 122K;
1995 Toyota Land Cruiser - 3X locked; 182K

The only Benz they fit is the M136 engine and they quit making that in 1954.

They are overall pretty common for all the pre-war cars, many tractors and small engines.
5-10 bucks apiece and you have some extra money for burgers

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1950 170SD
1951 Citroen 11BN
1953 Citroen 11BNF limo
1953 220a project
1959 180D
1960 190D
1960 Borgward Isabella TS 2dr
1983 240D daily driver
1983 380SL
1990 350SDL daily driver alt
3 x Citroen DS21M, down from 5
3 x Citroen 2CV, down from 6

Army's got a use for 'em.

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My first thoughts too.

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1991 300E - 212K and rising fast...