[TR] Noisy Engine

Randall tr3driver at ca.rr.com
Wed Sep 12 22:22:33 MDT 2007


> I'm having a tough time pin pointing the ugly noise coming 
> from my fresh TR4a engine and hoping you can help! I totally 
> rebuilt this engine with new or reworked EVERYTHING, so maybe 
> I got something wrong? 

I hear a very loose (or possibly sticking) valve, plus another not quite so
loose, plus an exhaust leak.

Did you by any chance replace the valve guides with phosphor-bronze ?  Did
you know they have to be reamed oversize ?

Randall


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