<div dir="ltr"><div><div><div><div><div><div><div><div>1.Open bonnet.<br></div>2. Remove valve cover.<br></div>3. Remove nuts on rocker shaft pedestals.<br></div>4.Lift off rocker shaft, rockers and pedestals.<br></div>5.Remove split pin at rear of rocker assembly.<br></div>6.Slide spacers, rockers, springs and pedestals off shaft: KEEP THEM IN THE CORRECT ORDER (slide them onto a long piece of wire or dowel) look for any broken bits of the failed rocker, if you can't find all of it pull the pan and look harder. <br></div>7.Check all rockers rocker-shaft and push-rods for excessive wear. Replace broken/worn rocker, rocker-shaft, and push-rods, and re-bush rockers as needed.<br></div>8.Assembly is the reverse of dis-assembly. Don' forget to re-torque the head properly.<br><br></div>Hal<br><div><div><br></div></div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Fri, Aug 28, 2015 at 7:19 AM, corvallis--- via Spridgets <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:spridgets@autox.team.net" target="_blank">spridgets@autox.team.net</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
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<p class="MsoNormal"><font face="Arial" color="navy" size="2"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:navy">A number of people have asked this
question; google search on the internet. Bill in <u></u><u></u>Oregon<u></u><u></u><u></u><u></u></span></font></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><font face="Arial" color="navy" size="2"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:navy"><a href="https://www.google.com/#q=replace+broken+rocker+arm" target="_blank">https://www.google.com/#q=replace+broken+rocker+arm</a><u></u><u></u></span></font></p>
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[mailto:<a href="mailto:spridgets-bounces@autox.team.net" target="_blank">spridgets-bounces@autox.team.net</a>] <b><span style="font-weight:bold">On
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<b><span style="font-weight:bold">Sent:</span></b> Friday, August 28, 2015 6:42
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<b><span style="font-weight:bold">Subject:</span></b> [Spridgets] Broken rocker
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="background:white"><font face="Helvetica" color="black" size="3"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Helvetica;color:black">Yesterday,
I had something happen that I have never seen before. I was driving the
Sprite and the engine started to sound like a Subaru WRX and then I decided to
limp home. <u></u><u></u></span></font></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="background:white"><font face="Helvetica" color="black" size="3"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Helvetica;color:black">I
started looking for the reason and found a broken rocker arm. it is the
stamped kind from a 1275. <u></u><u></u></span></font></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="background:white"><font face="Helvetica" color="black" size="3"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Helvetica;color:black">Here
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#3? <u></u><u></u></span></font></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="background:white"><font face="Helvetica" color="black" size="3"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Helvetica;color:black">Thanks
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