Thanks for the suggestions, Roger. By the way, Garnett Auto parts in
San Diego is a good place, both for the courteous and knowledgeable
machine shop guys, and their foreign and domestic parts selection.
I think your suggestion about the fluctuating oil pressure loss in
the rocker bearings may be right. My question now is, how do I check
those bearings? When I had the rocker assembly off during the rebuild,
I just slid the rockers aside a bit and inspected the shaft surface,
and felt for excessive wiggle in the rocker arms. Do I have to take the
whole rocker assembly apart and mic the shaft and bores? If I do that,
I'll have to un-torque the head, and that means replacing the head
gasket, right? Ugh. Maybe I'll wait till spring, after all.
In response to Scott at UCLA, why not take your block to Moss?
Goleta's not that far. I don't know anyone who's had work done there,
but I suspect they know their stuff. If I hadn't done my work in San
Diego, I'd have tried them.
------ Jean@spock.usc.edu
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