Symmons REB-VALVE-2 REB 2 Temptrol Valve rebuild kit, Brass

That front seat striped out on me as other have mentioned. I didn’t have a big enough easy out as others have mentioned they used. Rather then going to the store to get one I tried turning the tool around and to my surprise the larger end of the tool can simply be hammered into the soft brass seat and it worked awesome was able to get a lot more leverage on it then with an easy out! Hope this helps someone out.

Stripped original seat trying to remove. Plumber used this tool, stem and seat to replace. He heated the original seat with a torch, tapped the tool in the seat and then removed everything and replaced it with this one. Everything worked.

The tool is really high quality and essential to replace the hot and cold seats and the diverter. I replaced the older style seats which would be a very common repair. Symmons did a re design and the new seats use a different tool than the older one. But this tool has one end for the old seats and the opposite end for the new design, so everything works perfect. If you replace the diverter ( and you should ) this tool does not have the extractor like the after market Raven tool does. So I used a 3/8 lag screw, carefully inserted it in until I met a little resistance, gave it a very slight twist, pushed it down ever so slightly and pulled out the old diverter with ease. Place some plumbers grease around the o-ring and opposite end of new diverter and re-insert new diverter in place with the arrow notches pointed toward the ceiling. The trickiest part of the whole job is next. Using the hex tool while inserting the shallow hex screw without cross threading AND NOT LETTING THE SCREW DROP OFF THE HEX TOOL DOWN THE WALL, and forever lost can be a big challenge. I was very lucky and did not loose it. So to play it safe, maybe purchase the spare screw just in case it drops down the wall.

Not much to say. If you need to repack a Symmons valve... you need this tool. Does exactly what it is supposed to do.

I thought I was special, thought I would succeed where others had failed. But I failed, too, and it's likely you will tooIf you're a homeowner you're probably buying this because you have an old symmons valve with issues. If it's old, that cold seat is likely seized pretty tight in there, and you will strip it trying to remove that soft brass with an absurd ~1mm of engagement with this tool.Don't buy this, get the #8 screw extractor that everyone recommends, I think it's from Drill America here on Amazon. Mine is coming today, hope I have better luck with it than this over priced piece of scrap metal.Update, the #8 extractor worked perfectly, took 2 seconds after letting penetrating oil sit on the cold seat overnight. The oil was probably not necessary, it came out so easily.

This was exactly what I needed, parts were new and fixed the issue. The only problem I had was due to the packaging. The kit is pretty heavy and it was put in a padded mailer envelope. The first package was empty, the bottom torn out of it. The second package was delivered intact but when I picked it up by the edge it broke right through the bottom of the envelope.This should be shipped in a box instead.

if it wasn't the symmons tools it would not have taken the old one out. the 2nd ring was really stuck in valve. it was the old type with just the notches to grip slipped would not turn it. followed the directions tryed again with next notches just came loose saved the valve. read other reviews with different tool didnt work with odd name tool. this tool will take the newer shape valve and older type apart. this is 3rd time repairing shower valves with the symmons tools and valve with a good result.

The seat tooth is quality. Surprisingly the seats came out with minimal struggle. I sprayed them with PB Blaster and let sit for 30 minutes, they came right out.The valve works perfectly.