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

[Paul Dorsey]

Will do, thanks.Great idea!

On Sat, Sep 22, 2018 at 5:48 PM Allen Hess <allenhess at mgcarclub.com> wrote:

> stick a coathanger or similar wire down the hole and hold the tappet down
> while you pull the push rod out.
>
> Sent from my iPad
>
> > 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
>
>
>
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