Going to need to do some headwork soon, removing old valves, retainers, etc.
What's a good valvespring compressor and retainer/keeper remover and what's the best way to remove them? TIA

 

not the kind they sell at pepboys/autozone/sears...too big. I even bent the hell out of mine to make it fit, but still didn't work right. Snap-on would be the best bet..i think they sell em for like <$90 on the website.

 

go to a honda dealership and see if they will len you one thats what i did and it works great its like a leave that you slip along a bar that you mount to the head

 

Here you go: http://www.thetoolwarehouse.net/shop/product3313.html

I got the same one, works good.

 

the best way to remove them is to a get a deepsocket and put it on the retainer and hit it with a hammer.

 

yp tahts what i do. never did anything bad to anything. but yeah getting them in is a defferent story.

 

Ya...you can use the sears one to get em out, thats easy. Getting em in is another story cause the tool sits at an angle due the small size in the honda engine and thus its damn near impossible to get the keepers in. Put it this way it took me about an hour to get one back in. Course 20 minutes of that was freaking out cause one of the keepers just shot out I thought I had lost it

 

Im interested in this too. What tool do you need to compress the cylinder or do you even need to do that?

 

I was looking at these tools from snapon :


http://buy.snapon.com/catalog/pro_de...re&dir=catalog
http://buy.snapon.com/catalog/pro_de...re&dir=catalog


[Modified by blownsi, 10:22 PM 3/31/2002]

 

A really big vise!!
No really, You mean like compressing the cylinder to keep the valves up? Yes you do need this cause the valves will stay up a little just off of static resistance with the guides, but once you start screwing with them they might slip down and possibly fall into the combustion chamber. Go to sears (at least I did) and get a compression checking guage, it has like a pressure guage and a hose that fits to an air compressor on one end and screws into a spark plug hole on the other..just use that thing. I think they have two sets of screws on the hose, but make sure it will fit yours, as domestics and imports are different I think (US, and Metric).