3800 MECHANICAL FAILURE
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As you stated the best thing to do is to take off the valve cover and take a look to see what exactly is happening. I know that you have to take the two dog bones off as well as the ignition coil bracket, I think at that point it should come off. Basically just use common sense and start taking what NEEDS to come off and post up if you have a question and we can tell you if it needs to come off or can stay on. Or you can search for a rocker install guide and that can help.
i have had what i think is the down pipe ticking like everyone says is common with the 3 inch exhast...
and apparently a bad lower motor mount... but no strange noises from the front cylinder bank area
i can look up in the hole on the valve cover, and i see the pushrod up with the rocker, but i looked at that when the car was not running.
any chance cam lobe went south?
Originally posted by Mike K@Jul 14 2006, 12:29 AM
It would be a miracle if the cam lobe is to blame...
It sounds like you bent a pushrod or have a collapsed lifter. If you bent a pushrod you then have to ask yourself why... Did a piece of piston break off and not allow the valve to open?
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i would immagine, tho not guaranteed that if i broke part of a piston, the plug would have been smashed up... it wasnt at all
so lifter could be to blame i guess...
hey, are the rockers held on by a nut on a stud or a bolt?
guess it doesnt make much of a difference accept if it were a bolt and was loose, it wouldnt come completely out, where a nut on a stud might come off the stud... ?
Originally posted by MIKES3+Jul 14 2006, 08:17 AM-->
Jeez I hear a slight ticking in my motor area. I do have the ZZP 1.8 aluminum rockers along with 90lb springs. Will those tend to tick? It almost sounds like a sewing machine
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dunno... i've got 1:9 intense gen 3 rockers with 105# ls6 springs....
Originally posted by MIKES3+Jul 14 2006, 08:17 AM-->
Jeez I hear a slight ticking in my motor area. I do have the ZZP 1.8 aluminum rockers along with 90lb springs. Will those tend to tick? It almost sounds like a sewing machine
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I agree.. I kept thinking I has a exhaust leak... But it is just how it sounds..
Originally posted by Xtant12+Jul 14 2006, 11:38 AM-->
Jeez I hear a slight ticking in my motor area. I do have the ZZP 1.8 aluminum rockers along with 90lb springs. Will those tend to tick? It almost sounds like a sewing machine
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I agree.. I kept thinking I has a exhaust leak... But it is just how it sounds..
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Are you talking about the rockers?
Originally posted by MIKES3+Jul 14 2006, 11:56 AM-->
Jeez I hear a slight ticking in my motor area. I do have the ZZP 1.8 aluminum rockers along with 90lb springs. Will those tend to tick? It almost sounds like a sewing machine
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I agree.. I kept thinking I has a exhaust leak... But it is just how it sounds..
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Are you talking about the rockers?
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I think he is
if you have ANY basic knowledge of basic hand tools, you can get the valve cover off. 4 10mm (iicr), 4 15mm (really only two) to get the dog bones off, and i think that motor mount under the coil packs needs to come off, should take you about 45mins to an hour (without ANY previous experience) that will allow you to take a look at the rocker, and pull it off and check the push rod to see if it's bent or w/e, and maybe save you some cash
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