Another way to do this, and this is super duper old school... take some
old valve covers, old LA style valve covers will work great cuase the 5
holes still line up. Then cut a hole in the top of it so you can adjust
the rockers, throw this on and start it up, it will keep most of the oil
where it belongs, in the engine!
Clay
84 Dodge Ram, scrapin pavement w/ 440 8bbl
96 Indy Ram, scrapin EVERYTHING w/ 360 Magnum!' -(www.indyram.org)
69 Road Runner 440 6bbl, project car
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On Fri, 7 Apr 2000, GS- wrote:
> Dester223@aol.com wrote:
> > Okay, I'm gonna bore you with details.
> > After the Rollers we installed "right" I drove it abuot 147 miles around
> > town and here and there and it was doing fine, then I start to hear a
> > tapping/clicking sound.
>
>
> If all else fails, let me tell what I ended up doing. Some
> of you may freak out, but it worked. I grabbed some HEAVY aluminum
> foil from the kitchen and with the valve covers off, I more or less
> surrounded the heads so the oil flying off the rockers would drain
> back into the heads and not on the engine and garage. Don't laugh
> cause it worked great. Next with the engine RUNNING, I adjusted
> each rocker till I heard tapping and then went 1/4 past 0 lash to
> get the tapping to stop. I still had to take the covers off a few
> more times to get to those rockers that required more attention
> and more turns (1/2 - 3/4). This was basically a very old trick
> of rocker adjustment with a little aluminum foil added. NO SPILLS
> OF EXPENSIVE SYNTHETIC OIL, just a few spots here and there. I liked
> this method because the engine is telling you where the adjusments
> need to be made and you don't have to rely on just your own touch
> of spinning pushrods. Which brings up a question during adjustment,
> "is the lifter bled or is it loaded? Is the lifter on the base lobe
> of the cam? I'm not saying my way is the right way, but it damn sure
> was ONE easy way to adjust the rockers.
>
> GS -
>
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