[TR] IS THERE ANY SPOT ON THE ENGINE'S ROTATION WHERE THE TAPPET FALLING OUT...

[Allen Hess]

stick a coathanger or similar wire down the hole and hold the tappet down while you pull the push rod out. 

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> On Sep 21, 2018, at 9:17 PM, Paul Dorsey <dorpaul1 at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> Thank you everyone, I have found there is no such thing as cheap oil, but that is proably not my biggest issue at this point.  I had this tr 3-4 engine running 5 or 10 years ago when I realized I didn't have enough time for this project and threw in the towel.  At that point it had recently been rebuilt by a well respected engine shop locally.  Unfortunately, I didn't even periodically turn over the engine while it was in the TR3 outside under tarps. I had run it in-place for a total of about 5 hours (varying the rpm's) after rebuild at this point.  And it seemed to run good.
>      Now that I am back to continue the rebuild I notice that  one of the pushrods for cylinder No. 2 has seriously come out from underneath it's rocker arm.  I previously sent out a picture showing this problem, (if anyone else cares to see it, I can resend it.)  I don't know how this happened but I am back to turning the engine over manually in order to fix this pushrod problem
>   Several of you told me there might be a danger in simply removing this pushrod as it may create a kinda "suction" effect, and if I am not careful when removing it, it may 'pull' up it's tappet riding on the cam causing it to fall into the engine.  However,  I do need to pull out the pushrod to make sure it's not bent.  IS THERE ANY SPOT ON THE ENGINE'S ROTATION WHERE THE TAPPET FALLING OUT IS LESS LIKELY TO OCCUR?
> 
> thanks,
> Paul Dorsey  (hardly a shade tree mechanic)  
> 60 TR3