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| VaccaRabite |
 Jun 19 2010, 11:26 PM
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En Garde!  Group: Admin Posts: 13,757 Joined: 15-December 03 From: Dallastown, PA Member No.: 1,435 Region Association: MidAtlantic Region 
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What caused the valves to get tight? You running a little warm? Or just not been adjusting them?
Glad it got fixed, though! Zach |
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| Bartlett 914 |
Jun 20 2010, 07:37 AM
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Advanced Member Group: Members Posts: 2,218 Joined: 30-August 05 From: South Elgin IL Member No.: 4,707 Region Association: Upper MidWest |
QUOTE(Vacca Rabite @ Jun 20 2010, 12:26 AM)  What caused the valves to get tight? You running a little warm? Or just not been adjusting them? Glad it got fixed, though! Zach That is a good question Zach. I had the motor out and I had the heads off. I replaced the head gasket. and torqued the heads. I adjusted the valves. I was surprised that they all needed to be tightened up. I did adjust them properly. I will be home later today. Tomorrow I will check the head torque and adjust the valves again. Having just adjusted the valves caused a lot of doubt that this was my problem. Comments here helped push me to checking them before driving any distance. On a side note, I left Harrisonburg VA yesterday. I took US33 through the mountains. I passed maybe 10 cars in 100 miles. This was the most fun I ever had in my car. Twistys up and down the mountains! It was a total scream! Car ran great. I gor near the red on long inclines but never into it. One happy puppy here! |
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| brp986s |
Jun 20 2010, 11:18 AM
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Member Group: Members Posts: 434 Joined: 27-September 07 From: los angeles Member No.: 8,167 |
After doing a valve adjust I used to do a quick run-thru to check tightness of all the nuts before putting the cover on. One day I found that tightening the rocker arm nuts will quickly eat up whatever lash you thought you had.
Another thing - the rocker arms are lubed under pressure, but if your lash was <0 then there might not be enough oil pressure to overcome pressure from the valve spring. Your rocker arms and/or shafts may be toast. The shafts can be flipped over if they are scored, but I don't think the rockers can be rebushed. Please no (IMG:style_emoticons/default/bs.gif) or (IMG:style_emoticons/default/chair.gif) - just my experience with these things. |
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