<html><head></head><body>You definitely need to put it back. You should be able to get enough room to do that just by backing off the adjustment. If its still tight, turn the engine a half turn or so. <br>
Afterwards, of course, you'll have to adjust that valve, and I would suggest doing all of them (since obviously the shop didn't do it).<br>
-- Randall<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On 4 September 2018 06:18:27 GMT-05:00, Paul Dorsey <dorpaul1@gmail.com> wrote:<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); padding-left: 1ex;">
<div><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr">No starting it today! I took the valve cover off and urgh one of the pushrods had been seriously misaligned with it's rocker arm.This engine had been rebuilt by an eengine shop<div><img src="cid:165a44c979f23ec885c1" style="max-width: 100%;"></div>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.</div><div>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!</div><div dir="ltr"><br></div><div>Thanks Paul Dorsey, shadetree mechanic on 60 TR3</div></div>
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