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nope…comp cams does recomend 1/2 to 3/4 turn
Dose any of this change with roller rockers? any different steps?
I think he is over tightened rockers. That extra half turn is too much.
More fun than your POS thats for sure, lol
have fun driving anything with 160 hp…lol
Why are you giving the valves lashes?
They did nothing wrong.
I rub a magic marker on the valve stem tip.
As the rocker opens and closes the valve, observe the pattern on the valve stem tip.
If the pattern is evenly centered between the tip chamfers, fine.
After 100 000 mi. you should have the original valve-stem tip chamfer.
No observable wear.
Stock pedestal rockers have an oval bolt hole.
You know this allows fore and aft adjustment of the stem tip pattern.
If the pattern is wrong, goodby to the valve guides.
They are side loaded now.
Do you mean, how can you hear the chatter while the engine is running…? You would notice it even with the hood closed.
how it wud be chatter when running during adjust the value???
what does the rotation look like for a 250 CI straight six???any idea?got some valves and rods that need adjusting.
2 rotations =720 degrees divided by 8 cyl means 90 degree rotation per cyl adjusted.
ktmboy is correct, you can set all valves with only 2 rotations of the engine, this saves the cam lobs and bigend bearings in a total engine rebuild.
No it is 90 degrees it takes 720 degrees of crank rotation to go through firing order divided by 8 cyl equals 90 degrees .crank rotates two revolutions per one revolution of cam
you rotate the engine an eighth of a turn to get to the next valve right not a quarter, right?
I remember in class one of my friends dropped a valve keeper (on sohc 92 honda). We looked for it for days! And without the right tool those are a pain to install.
correction to my first post, the rails are to keep the rockers from squirming around on the valve, you can’t really see them on the rockers in the video but they are there.
And I’ll also bet you have to grind the tip of the valves to remove them as they have mushroomed and will not fit through the valve guides anymore, don’t force them or your guides will be ruined, too.
This is a very bad situation, get it fixed if you haven’t already.
damned youtube, this is an answer to 19LivetoDrive80. and I also see that you posted 2 months ago. you still running this motor? I’ll bet you can visibily see that your puchrods are getting concave where they rub the cylinder head plus your oil filter is full of metal shavings and the ingested metal has worn your oil pump badly.
Don’t Run This Motor Any More until you get this fixed. You will likely have to replace your pushropds, rockers, and oil pump, clean the pan and pick up tube too.
you either don’t have guide plates or some Ford rockers have giude rails on either side of the rocker contact point to keep the valve from squirming around. If these are after market rollers then the previous owner got the wrong rocker arms and there is nothing to keep your rocker arms square to the valve stem and youe wearing your pushrods out badly. DO NOT RUN THIS ENGINE ANY MORE!! your heading for MAJOR head rebuild if you do
This is an easier procedure with a Chrysler big block engine. I like how MoPar used a rocker shaft, rather than the individual rocker mounts.
hey I used to have a duster 73 that had a slant6 until my parents sold it without asking me I was PISSED! Anyhow those slant6 have hell alot of torque than horsepower.
Thanks for having this video here! I with my brother’s help am rebuilding a 1980′s slant6 in a Dodge D150 shortbed (it’s on Wikipedia) and this was a holdup besides the weather here in Alaska in getting the truck back on the road. I learned a lot with this video. THANKS!
really great videos. i have adjustable rockers and hydraulic lifters. When i find the closing event for #1, do I adjust BOTH the intake an exhaust lash at that time? or only the intake then repeat whole procedure for exhausts?
thx
Thanks for the help! But… the roller tips aren’t rolling off the intake manifold or exhaust side of the valve tips, its side to side, or from firewall to engine fan. Any ideas? Thanks again
Hydraulic lifters in combination with rockers are adjusted with too much slack will “chatter” when running. This clacking-chatting noise will be more severe when there is more slack and will be heard coming from under the valve covers as the sounds are created by the slack between the rockers tips and the valve tips as the lifters push and then relax tension on the pushrods.
Engines with solid lifters need to keep a bit of clearance between the rockers and valve tips because of heat expansion.
if the rockers are not adjusted what happens? i mean is there any specific sound you can hear and understand that?