[TR] Serious rocker arm misalignment with pishrod

[TeriAnn J. Wakeman]

On 9/4/18 4:18 AM, Paul Dorsey wrote:
>  I took the valve cover off and urgh one of the pushrods had been 
> seriously misaligned with it's rocker arm.
Obviously it is not going to work properly. My initial thought, looking 
at the double nuts is that the threads may be bad on that rocker arm. I 
assume that the valve is not all the way down. If it were me, I would 
check the threads then probably get the rocker arm assembly rebuilt with 
all new bushings, a replaced arm and anything else needed to make the 
assembly like new. I would also pull the push rods, roll them for 
straightness and make sure they are all the same correct length. But I 
tend to do more than minimally needed.

Before blaming the shop look back at your instructions to the shop. If 
it was for a quick budget rebuild, maybe the mechanic thought that 
putting the adjuster under tension and double nutting it would hold it 
in place. But at the very least, they should have brought that problem 
to your attention and let you make the decision on how to handle it. As 
I said, I would have gone for a complete rocker arm assembly rebuild.
> p  (even though it might have been 15 years ago!)  so I assumed it 
> had been adjusted too loose, but even after running 2 nuts itogather, 
> I still couldn't get the pushrod to go under it so I quit.
> ISTR that this might have been the reason I quit the restoration 15 
> years ago.  Im not sure if I  suppose to do this, but I've sent out 
> a picture taken with my Iphone included with this email.  Can someone 
> telllll me if THISS ISthat serious or not and how to fix it,it's over 
> cyllinder two!
>
> Thanks  Paul Dorsey, shadetree mechanic on 60 TR3
>
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