davemurray

Cant manage to take out the intake valve, I just used the valve compression tool and managed to take out all exhaust valves on my E7's but cant separate the retainers on the intake valves.
Is there a special tool to take out the valves?
Any help would be greatly a appreciated.

mkspeed26

hit it with a hammer. sometimes the retainers and keepers get stuck and wont separate

tinman

I would give it a squirt of WD-40 or something like it and go to bed for the night.
Get up. Put head on bench so valve is not going to move (like some rags in the chamber) and then use junky old socket (deep well) and 2lb hammer to hit it making sure valve don't open.
Tool should work fine now......

davemurray

Can't manage to take the out...[:@] I've worked with cylinder heads before but this is the first time I cant remove all intake retainers, all exhaust valves came out preety quick, I even use a spacer to huld the little cup that holds the retainers while I hammer it but they don't move. I've tried everything from brute force to WD-40 an nothing happens.
What can I do?

mkspeed26

do u plan on usin the springs again? when WD40 doesnt work for me i usually upgrade to torch. see if that can break it loose