Just to get them apart there's a ridiculously simple old mechanic's trick, haven't done it on a Saab head but it should work: Head on a bench or safely flat on a yielding floor: Take a spark plug socket or other similar deep well socket, and, having removed the lifters, put the socket on top of the spring retainer. Take a big hammer and whack the socket once, or a couple times. Even without any block under the valve, it drives the spring down and the keepers pop right out, occasionally on the first blow, sometimes a couple pops. Pick up the pieces, and store valves and springs in proper order. An upside-down carboard box with 16 holes poked with a pencil for the valves, a couple of egg cartons for other parts, labelled with magic marker.
To keep cam bearing faces and lifter wells from getting marred up, if you miss with the hammer, maybe it's a good idea on the Saab to use a 6" extension on the socket.
A more gentle way, also on the cheap, would be to grind a wide slot down the side of a deep well socket so you can reach in with a magnet. Then put little blocks of wood down on the floor to hold the valves closed, put your slotted socket on top of the retainers, and take a say 3-4' long piece of pipe with at one end, a hole with a bolt put through it. Then put the bolt down into the socket to hold the pipe from slipping off, and stand on the pipe.
Pick keepers out and proceed to next valve.




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• Removing valves, Jacob Roufa, Tue, 18 Jul 2006 10:34:39
  • READ THIS!!, turbocon86, Wed, 19 Jul 2006 11:17:16
    • Re: READ THIS!!, MS, Wed, 19 Jul 2006 13:35:50
      • To quote Tennessee Williams ...., RS , Wed, 19 Jul 2006 19:56:39
        • BTW, That was a quote from, RS , Wed, 19 Jul 2006 19:59:09
    • Re: Getting keepers out., RayF, Wed, 19 Jul 2006 12:11:06
  • Re: Removing valves, MS, Wed, 19 Jul 2006 00:24:37
  • Re: Removing valves, Smartin, Tue, 18 Jul 2006 18:17:15
  • Re: Removing valves, SWEDISH DYNAMICS, Tue, 18 Jul 2006 13:41:55
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