2000KnightRider

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On the way back from getting some fine tuning done on my T/A, I noticed a "machine gun" sound coming from the drivers side of my engine. I stopped on the side of the road and a friend towed me to his place and I opened my valve covers and found 2 valve springs snapped in half on the drivers side. I ran my car for about 8 to 10 miles on the broken valve springs. I found a piece of a valve spring and valve seal ring sitting in the head bolt section of my head. I was wondering what are the chances of any shards ending up in my block.

vettenuts

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If they drained down with oil they should come out with an oil change and magnetic plug. I would be more concerned about the valves hitting the pistons while you were driving it.

DaddySS

I don't think debris from the spring or seal will be a problem, I would be concerned with how much banging the valve did against the piston. Replace all the springs and seals, change the oil and fish the pan with a magnet and see what you have from there.

2000KnightRider

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I havent taken the springs off yet but from what I can tell so far the inner springs held up.

5.3LJimmy

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What springs are you running and how many miles?

santiago

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my motor gave way after driving on a broken valve spring. i changed the broken one out and replaced it and it still blew up i guess the valve cracked the piston.

2000KnightRider

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REV dual springs. Unfortuneltly my dumbass bought them used with 8000 miles on them. I guess I deserve that f*ck up.

vaticano

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damn that sucks. i broke two sets of double springs and one set of valves before i found some good ones

Blu99T/A

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Yeah really sucks that they barely lasted 6 weeks with no WOT runs.

Redlinez

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It happened to me years ago and I was able to just install new springs and drive away. I guess I got lucky. I'm pretty sure I was running single coil springs too.