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Old 10-29-2008, 12:22 PM
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some of yall read my previous post about a ticking sound that is there all the time now...


i pulled the driver valvecover and was inspecting the pushrods... all were good except one... it has a groove cut into it all around it and theres a dent or a deep scrape of some sort... what caused this?.. i tried to put up pics buit the digi cam is a pos...
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did you hit the rev limiter?
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nope just 3 days ago i went out to start the car and a ticking started and it gets faster as i throttle up...
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its a ring groove cut in it right near the tip of the push rod and theres a marr.. like someone hit it with a hammer sort of.. hard to describe




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