diff --git a/tests/document/instance.py b/tests/document/instance.py
index 5d4cd1da..f4527ad8 100644
--- a/tests/document/instance.py
+++ b/tests/document/instance.py
@@ -751,6 +751,10 @@ class InstanceTest(MongoDBTestCase):
                 '_id': post.id
             })
 
+        # Important to disconnect as it could cause some assertions in test_signals
+        # to fail (due to the garbage collection timing of this signal)
+        signals.pre_save_post_validation.disconnect(BlogPost.pre_save_post_validation)
+
     def test_document_clean(self):
         class TestDocument(Document):
             status = StringField()
diff --git a/tests/test_signals.py b/tests/test_signals.py
index f3b6e33c..34cb43c3 100644
--- a/tests/test_signals.py
+++ b/tests/test_signals.py
@@ -227,6 +227,9 @@ class SignalTests(unittest.TestCase):
 
         self.ExplicitId.objects.delete()
 
+        # Note that there is a chance that the following assert fails in case
+        # some receivers (eventually created in other tests)
+        # gets garbage collected (https://pythonhosted.org/blinker/#blinker.base.Signal.connect)
         self.assertEqual(self.pre_signals, post_signals)
 
     def test_model_signals(self):