Car runs like crap after adjusting rockers
10-04-2008, 01:31 PM
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Car runs like crap after adjusting rockers I just finished installing my cam. Before I did a first start up I adjusted the valves with a 1/4 turn preload. The car ran fine while I did a few heat cycles, revved up fine and sounded great. When I was on my last heat cycle I noticed the rockers were ticking a little bit so I decided to redo them with a 1/2 turn preload while it was still hot. Started it back up and it sounded a little different and when I rev it sounded very under power compared to earlier and hesitated when I first stepped on the gas. So I re-adjusted the rockers again back to a 1/4 turn preload thinking that was it but when i started the car up again the problem was still there. I even adjusted the rockers with no preload and still no luck. Does anyone have any other suggestions on what could be going on and what I can do to fix it? thanks
10-04-2008, 02:27 PM
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You may have collapsed a lifter. Maybe it wasn't the rockers ticking and perhaps a lifter instead. If it has a "dead miss", I'd almost bet on it. Being that you have readjusted the rockers 3 times, I wouldn't count on them being misadjusted.
