Indeed. Car will be there when you get back. I would have done the same.

 

You had between the hours of 12am and 6am to accomplish this Darth lol Just giving you crap. Nice of your dad to make the haul! Cant wait to come back down.....

 

Im hoping my intermediate pipe hooks up to these tsp 2" like it does my kooks.

if not I guess a good muffler shop can make it work, mine will go on tomorrow night/Wednesday morning

 

Nice work Darth. With car and family buddy. Thing sounds so bad ***.

 

Nice work as always! Patience...I'll finish mine before you!!

 

Life and Family before a car....with no worries 😊👍

 

Thanks guys. Unless it goes horribly apeshit I should have it on the street today. Just one pipe being a pain in the asa.

 

No tire burning ....LOL. send pops my regards, tell him what's up Youngster.

Older generations Luv when you call'em this😉😁

 

Lol Smoke! I will!

Well it is running but a bit of a snag I think. Hopefully simple. Letting it cool down. I will get vids up shortly. My guess is a rocker came loose. Its not running like a misfire at all. Idles great at 950.

 

One vid is just showing how well it's idling at 950. other shows what I think is loose rocker.

 

Well it did turn out to be a loose rocker. But the reason is a pushrod got wedged. I think I set the lash with either the rod not in the cup or the lifter not all the way down. Then it snapped into place and was too short so it popped out. Got stuck between the lifter and head.

Checked valve tips and all same height. Checked compression vs a good cylinder. Same number of pumps to get to same pressure.

Basically one replacement rod and I'm good to go.

 

As overkill as it really is, I set lash once with a vertical sharpie mark on each rocker. Come back again and check it second time, putting horizontal mark on each rocker, looking like a plus sign. Then I button it all up, fire it up, let it idle for about a minute, and then go back in and check all of them one more time if something sounds odd. Takes a while. But once it’s right, as you know Jake, the valvetrain will be quiet as a mouse.
Did it hurt the pushrod bad enough to get any metal shavings in the engine?

 

You got lucky bro...coulda been way worse. I was there when my buddy dropped a valve on his 408ci fbody. Trashing one of his AFR cylinder heads...it was so demoralizing knowing it had to come back out again

 

You need to be so careful and precise and can't overlook one little thing.
Something as small as this can cause so much damage.
Hopefully it's all good.
Such an expensive list of parts.

 

Yeah. First time with an issue. My method is to set. Do four full revolutions, do it again. Then fire it up. Normally after a heat cycle I would check again. With all the weird last minute **** I didn't. If I had I would have caught it. My solid valve trains are normally quieter than hydraulics.

I did not find any shavings looking through the lifter boss. Everything still looks pretty cherry in there.

 

Should be ok. Listen to the idle clip. Running too good to have dropped a valve, etc

 

👍.....

 

New pushrod arrives Wednesday. So we will see then.

 

Length?

 

8.120