Does anyone know how to get the valve guides out of my head? I'm trying to replace them and I don't know if they press in or what. Thanks.

 

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they are pressed in. if you've never done it, you should just take it somewhere
to have it done. but its rare when they need replacing.

 

Yep pressed out and pressed in. A machine shop is the best bet

 

The procedure in the Honda service manual involves heating the head, something that would be easy to overdo, resulting in head warpage. There is a special tool from Honda as well, it is like a punch that fits in the guide, with a lip that sits on rim of the guide. Honda says to hit the guide down, towards the combustion chamber to break the carbon loose, then drive the guide out through the top. It would be very easy to ruin a head trying to change the guides if you don't know what you are doing.

 

Off to a machine shop it is then. Thanks for the help.