[elky] Re: Race Car Sunday
- From: Chris Lindh <chris@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: elky@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Mon, 12 Sep 2011 09:06:36 -0400
Makes me wonder if that rocker has an issue. Hopefully it was just loose.
Looking back your pushrods should be correct:
http://www.chevyasylum.com/85monte/85monte10.html and I assume they are
heavy duty. Do you remember what length they were?
Lord willin' and the creek don't rise I touch down at in SLC 10:27AM
tomorrow.
On Sun, Sep 11, 2011 at 4:34 PM, Ray Buck <rbuck@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Friday while I had the race car at the alignment shop it dropped a
> cylinder. It was firing thru the carburetor and actually sounded like a rod
> knock or an exhaust leak...that's what I thought it was and I spent all day
> Saturday changing exhaust manifold gaskets. Don't ask why it took all day.
> Just imagine turning 7/16" head machine screws one flat at a time above your
> head and dropping the wrench every 3rd flat.
>
> When I fired it up it did the same damned thing. I drained and changed the
> oil and filter and there was no metal in it so I felt ok about that. So I
> figgered it must have been a valve that has its static lash set too tight.
> I found one roller rocker
>
>
>
> (picture of motor when I built it in 05) that was loose. I pulled the
> spark plug wire on that cylinder and the firing thru the carb went away. So
> I knew it was number 5. Then several of us: Jim Halladay, Thomas "Pork Pie"
> Graf (a German photographer who's staying with me until we head for the
> salt) and I started trying to figure it out.
>
>
>
> Eventually, Thomas, who was messing around with the pushrods said he
> thought he had it correctly installed. I fired it up and it ran great. I
> don't understand it a bit. It ran fine when we first started it a coupla
> weeks ago and then it didn't. How in the world a pushrod jumped out of its
> pocket in the roller lifter is beyond me. But it's running and we're
> buttoning it up so we can load it on the trailer tomorrow morning and head
> for the salt.
>
> I dunno, but I'm not gonna argue. It sure sounds good.
>
> r
>
>
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