Exhaust side

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Fig 1: Screwing Snap-In Device VAS5161/6 With Attaching Fork VAS5161/4 Onto Stud On Cylinder Head

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Screw snap-in device VAS5161/6 with attaching fork VAS5161/4 onto stud on cylinder head.
Push guide bushing VAS5161/14 as far as it will go into valve lifter guide on valve to be removed.

Installed position: Checkered areas must be at right angle to direction of travel

Push knurled spacer ring VAS5161/17 onto cartridge VAS5161/8.

Push cartridge into guide bushing.
Attach pressure fork VAS5161/2 to snap-in device VAS5161/6 and press cartridge downward.
Simultaneously, turn knurled screw of cartridge clockwise until ends engage in valve keepers.
Move knurled screw back and forth slightly so that valve keepers are pressed apart and taken up into cartridge.

Release pressure fork.
Remove cartridge with spacer ring, guide bushing, valve head and valve spring.