Re: Textbook example of excessive valve lash

[farna@xxxxxxx]

Great! My second thought was the oil passage in the block could be blocked, though that's not likely since that passage is a hole drilled beside the lifter bores that intersects them. At least that's the way I recall it being made... 

On August 10, 2005 Matt Haas wrote:

> The lifter still has a little spring in it but since the engine's out (this
> is, of course, the second most expensive phrase, right after "while we're
> at it"), it's going off to a machine shop to be disassembled, cleaned, and
> checked out. It's getting a new cam and lifters and if that rocker or push
> rod is rough looking from the pounding it took, they'll be replaced as
> well. I intend to completely detail all of the engine accessories to the
> way they're supposed to be before everything goes back together.
> 
> Matt
> 
> At 08:39 AM 8/10/2005 -0400, you wrote:
> >Looks like a collapsed lifter for sure! You might be able to pull that
> >one, take it apart, clean it, reassemble (naturally), and put it back to
> >use. But then replacements are pretty cheap...
> >
> >On August 9, 2005 Matt Haas wrote:
> >
> > > I think I found the source of my lifter noise:
> > > http://www.mattsoldcars.com/1967american/bad_lifter.shtml. While I was
> > > moving the rocker arm shown in the picture back and forth, I heard the
> > > "tink, tink, tink" noise it was making when I was cranking it.
> > >
> > > Matt
> > >
> > > mhaas@xxxxxxx
> > > Cincinnati, OH
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> mhaas@xxxxxxx
> Cincinnati, OH
> http://www.mattsoldcars.com
> 1967 Rambler American wagon
> 1968 Rambler American sedan
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> According to a February survey of Internet holdouts released by
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