Missed a shift bent pushrods and other Damage
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Missed a shift bent pushrods and other Damage So a couple weeks ago I missed a shift 1-2-3-2 style, bent some pushrods, problem fixed. drove the car like 100 miles had a rocker arm back off, I didnt use lock-tite the first time, no big, used lock-tite re-torqued checked all the torque, last night I was coming home from a date beating on the car a touch just because, and the rocker arm started taping again...need to pull the valve cover today and check its the same one, but I am pretty sure it is...what did I break?
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Well, I didnt locktite all of them, and yes it was a redline powershift. I just pulled both valve covers off and took my torque wrench to the rocker bolts and all of them were still at 22ft/lbs so I am begining to think less valve and more possibly bad lifter. I should also add that I replaced all 16 pushrods with Comp Chromoly Pushrods. Ideas anyone?
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Originally Posted by Injected1
how can I check for bent valves without pulling the heads off?
try to have a leakdown test performed, r u runnig rough by the way?
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the car is running great, doesnt feel like its down on power, seems to be running perfect.
It just seems like a bad lifter to me, because when I run the car hard, it starts tapping, then I shut it down over night and the tap went away then as I reved the car a little to see what I could hear with my mechanics stethescope the tap got louder
It just seems like a bad lifter to me, because when I run the car hard, it starts tapping, then I shut it down over night and the tap went away then as I reved the car a little to see what I could hear with my mechanics stethescope the tap got louder
I did the same thing once. In addition to bending six intake pushrods one of the plastic lifter retainers broke and a lifter was spinning around on the cam. I had to pull the bank 2 head after listening and replaced the lifter and cam. Fixed my problem. If you miss a shift with hardened push rods you will get even more damage.
