BG241 Valve Spring Keepers


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Yard Art
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Post Thu Nov 08, 2018 7:08 pm

BG241 Valve Spring Keepers

Am looking for a source of valve spring keepers for the intake valves on a BG241 engine. The intake valves use two of the cone-shaped keepers, and the exhaust valves use two of the flat keepers. I lost one (half) of the keepers for one of the exhaust valves and am unable to find a replacement.

I tried Rock Auto, O'Reilleys, NAPA, AutoZone, all of the usual suspects, as well as some specialist machine shops - everyone has access to the cone-shaped keepers for the intake valves, but not the flat keepers for the exhaust valves. I did receive a "supposedly" correct set of flat keepers but the ID is too small. Am looking for one to match the third flat keeper on the right of the picture below. The OD of the exhaust valve where this keeper fits is 0.275.

Any help would be appreciated.
Thanks, Heinz
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Golden Jubilee
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Post Fri Nov 09, 2018 6:20 pm

Re: BG241 Valve Spring Keepers

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Yard Art
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Post Fri Nov 09, 2018 9:33 pm

Re: BG241 Valve Spring Keepers

Thanks for your help Kevin, but the keepers that this site shows are all the cone-type - not the flat type. Even for the 241 engine - it shows only the cone type. Did I miss anything? Heinz

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Post Sat Nov 10, 2018 9:11 am

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Rusty Driver
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Post Sun Nov 11, 2018 11:42 am

Re: BG241 Valve Spring Keepers

Is it the cup that determines what kind a keeper is used? My parts manual only shows the tapered keepers, And my spare head only has tapered keepers installed on it . I was wondering if you could just change the cup out to except the tapered keepers?

Also I was thinking the flat keepers you pictured don’t look like they would be that hard to make, I would assume they would have to be hardened.

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Post Sun Nov 11, 2018 12:00 pm

Re: BG241 Valve Spring Keepers

Also I noticed the parts manual list three different valves, three different cups, two different retainers, hopefully one of the more knowledgeable contributors to this website could shed some light
....T

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