Valve guide retainer clip

WTH..."71chevy" threw me for a bit there!
I think you are talking about the best one, which has a cam (rather like the one in some stud pullers) that rolls against the end of the clip and tightens from the pressure of the pull...It is scarce and has been out of production just about forever. Can't think of the name, but it is from a small and obscure source, nothing like KD or Snap-on.
I think I actually bought mine on the HAMB...
There was also a simpler but riskier lever type, which used a roll pin at a cleverly chosen angle to go through the hole so it could be repaired if it wore or broke from the very heavy pull. Also rare, and carries the substantial risk of ripping the hole.
The KD bent punch one is reproduced by the Australian guy, but it is of course a do-or-die tool with lots of risk.
Maybe best moderately common/findable substitute is the KD heavy forged bent punch that allows a decent chance at knocking the guide down a little to the clip falls out. They were very popular back when and are a lot easier to find than the cam type lever.
None of the trickery is needed, of course, on post-1948 engines, whose guides can be removed with common tools and only a corporal's grasp of profanity.
On a truly stuck early guide, assuming that everything is to be discarded anyway, I would suggest just drilling into the center of the valve to remove head from stem...then the guide can be pounded straight down with a socket as the punch.
 
Bruce Lancaster said:
WTH..."71chevy" threw me for a bit there!
I think you are talking about the best one, which has a cam (rather like the one in some stud pullers) that rolls against the end of the clip and tightens from the pressure of the pull...It is scarce and has been out of production just about forever. Can't think of the name, but it is from a small and obscure source, nothing like KD or Snap-on.
I think I actually bought mine on the HAMB...
There was also a simpler but riskier lever type, which used a roll pin at a cleverly chosen angle to go through the hole so it could be repaired if it wore or broke from the very heavy pull. Also rare, and carries the substantial risk of ripping the hole.
The KD bent punch one is reproduced by the Australian guy, but it is of course a do-or-die tool with lots of risk.
Maybe best moderately common/findable substitute is the KD heavy forged bent punch that allows a decent chance at knocking the guide down a little to the clip falls out. They were very popular back when and are a lot easier to find than the cam type lever.
None of the trickery is needed, of course, on post-1948 engines, whose guides can be removed with common tools and only a corporal's grasp of profanity.
On a truly stuck early guide, assuming that everything is to be discarded anyway, I would suggest just drilling into the center of the valve to remove head from stem...then the guide can be pounded straight down with a socket as the punch.
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I use Bruce's method most of the time if they are really stubborn.
For super extreme cases I use the plasma cutter and cut the spring, valve and guide all at once.
 
the keeper is normally called a horse shoe keeperfor obvious reasons, it looks like a horse shoe,there is a drift punch made or driving down the guide so the keepr can be removed, its bent like half of an H so it will go along side an open vale and sit on top of the guide, you use a heavy hammer to hit the driver on top and drive a stuck guide down
 
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