You want my guess? The valve is sticking in the guide (I'll guess the
push rod was from an exhaust valve) and when the tappet and rocker
were no longer loading the pushrod, it "fell right over." -- No Fun.
(with apologies to Firesign Theater)
Donald.
> Date: Mon, 4 Mar 2002 10:45:09 -0500 (EST)
> From: Bill Gunshannon <bill@cs.scranton.edu>
>
> Anybody ever see this??
>
[snip]
> After a listen he suggested popping the plugs and taking the valve cover
> off. before he even got the plugs out, he spotted the problem. A push
> rod had fallen out from under its rocker arm!! Needless to say, this
> made the noise and vehavior of the engine crystal clear. The big question
> is, how was this possible?? He had to turn the tappet all the way out in
> order to get it back into place and after this the car ran perfectly.
> I could see this happeneing if the car were being pushed and the valves
> started floating due to weak springs, but the list drive before this was
> at a very conservative 25-30 MPH beacue of the missing cylender. As one
> more note, it was not the same cylender that had the bad p[lug wire and
> the dropped pushrod.
>
>
> Anybody ever see this happen??
>
> bill
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