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<div> <font size="3">Not necessarily. This happened to me once on a head I had recently had rebuilt. It worked fine for a while and then, one day, a pushrod popped put, just like yours. I loosened the rocker assembly, put everything right and tightened everything back down and it has worked fine ever since. One theory offered by a local mechanic is that the valve guide was a little stiff and the valve didn't close quickly enough making the gap large enough to allow the pushrod to pop out.</font></div>
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<div><font size="3">I suggest you loosen up the rocker assembly and set it back in position and give it another try.</font><br>
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From: Paul Dorsey <dorpaul1@gmail.com><br>
To: DAVID MASSEY <dave1massey@cs.com>; Don Hiscock <don.hiscock@gmail.com>; Triumph list Team.net <triumphs@autox.team.net>; cliff_hansen <cliff_hansen@outlook.com>; john.macartney <john.macartney@ukpips.org.uk>; ptegler <ptegler@verizon.net>; tr3driver <tr3driver@ca.rr.com><br>
Sent: Tue, Sep 4, 2018 6:18 am<br>
Subject: Serious rocker arm misalignment with pishrod<br>
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<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
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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>
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<div>Thanks Paul Dorsey, shadetree mechanic on 60 TR3</div>
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