In addition to my truck not starting the trans am started ticking today. Sounded like a lifter so i took it by the Auto Shop. The owner Chad is a pretty cool guy told me it could be a bent pushrod or a broken valve spring. Anyways he told me to pop the valve cover off and check it out. Looks like i get to spend all weekend working on cars lol. If anyone has pushrods,valvesprings, or lifters laying around let me know..i may be in the market.

 

Also if the valve springs and pushrods check out what do i look for as far as the lifters are concerned to tell if its bad? Any tips would be appreciated.

 

any scoring, or irregularity on the lifter is pretty much not good.

 

how hard is it to get to the lifters?

 

you have to take the heads off, i have some stockers if you want em but i wont be back at my garage till the 15th

 

i dont want to take a head off. Is there a write up somewhere that gives info on how to do it and what specs to torque everythign down to?

 

ls1howto.com and do fbod head swap, and thats the only way to get the lifters out, sorry man

 

i had a valve spring go out on my ss, it made the car run like crap and made a ticking noise. look for a cracked spring, your gonna need a flash light, even after he told me it was a busted spring and i looked under the hood i didnt notice until the tech pointed it out. to swap a spring i dont think you need to take off the head, but there is a chance you bent a valve and did some damage to the piston (although you would notice your car would basically be running on 7 cylinders even after you replaced the spring)

keith craft in plano charged me $800 for install and comp springs, so expect like $200 less from just a regular shop

 

Well i got my truck running today so thats good. Im gunna tear into the trans am tomorrow morning probably. Hopefully its somthing simple but with my luck it wont be lol. I guess if it gets bad it will give me an excuse to toss a bigger cam in there.