>I rebuilt my motor this past spring. I put about 7000 hard miles on it
>this summer (four months of touring the southwest) with no real
>problems.
>About two weeks ago I started hearing a "tappet" noise and promptly
>pulled the cover to discover the set screw on the rocker shaft had
>gone to it's grave and was nowhere in sight. I replaced the set screw,
>checked for wear and reset the valves (they were all within .002". No
>joy same sound of a single valve banging away.
What are you setting the valve clearances at? I ask because I had a similar
problem, only to find that the book I used showed two different gap
measures, and I was u sing the wrong one. (I've already forgotten which was
correct.)
Terry Smith, '59 Tr3A
New Hampshire
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