Resolved Valve half moons

[Thatsilver97gs]

Does anyone know where you can find/order the half moons for the valves? Doing a head rebuild on my 97 gst and lost a half moon that locks the valve springs in and can’t find any website to order them off of. Can someone send a link?

 

[pauleyman]

Those are valve spring retainers. Even rockauto lists them. Shouldn't be a hard part to find.

 

[Thatsilver97gs]

Those are valve spring retainers. Even rockauto lists them. Shouldn't be a hard part to find.

i found them on stm tuned the valve springs lockers is what there called

 

[BLACK'98DSM]

"Retainers"... "Lockers"... I even call them "Keepers" myself... What helps most is knowing the proper terminology for parts.
STM Tuned is not the only vendor with them, but glad you found the desired part regardless!

 

[Thatsilver97gs]

"Retainers"... "Lockers"... I even call them "Keepers" myself... What helps most is knowing the proper terminology for parts.
STM Tuned is not the only vendor with them, but glad you found the desired part regardless!

Same! I grew up with old school dad and grandpa and small block Chevys so they always called them half moons because well they do look like half moons luckily I found them and rememberd there called lockers!

 

[BLACK'98DSM]

Normally when I hear "half moon" in reference to an engine, the first thing I think of is a camshaft plug for a cylinder head. But it is just a descriptor of a shape after all!

 

[Thatsilver97gs]

Normally when I hear "half moon" in reference to an engine, the first thing I think of is a camshaft plug for a cylinder head. But it is just a descriptor of a shape after all!

Understandable! I kept looking them up and it popped up the valve cover gasket half moons for the cams! Can’t wait to get my gst running it’s been a long long project and me being 16 I’m so ready for it

 

[DSMPT]

Search with "Valve keeper" or "Valve cotter". You would find more options.

 

[1990TSIAWDTALON]

Valve spring KEEPERS will yield very good results in a search.