[Spridgets] Early next month I'll go hunting for the metal scrap

[Ron Soave]

--- Jim Johnson <bmwwxman at gmail.com> wrote:
> in size) what are the chances that it could go down
> the push-rod hole
> and make it all the way into the oil pan?

It could be anywhere. Last year I had a cotter pin
break off the end of a rocker shaft. It happened at
the track and I pulled the head, cleaned everything as
best we could, tried all the magnet tricks and came up
with nothing. After a weekend of mysteriously changing
valve clearances (I assumed I was wiping a cam lobe),
I disassembled everything and found 1/2 the pin
against the oil screen and the other half sitting in a
lifter cup under a pushrod that I had removed at the
track and "magneted". 

So...my recommendation is to disassemble and
reassemble. It really doesn't take more than a few
hours and winter's coming.

Ron
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