No Go on New engine parts.
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Originally Posted by spedaleden
I watched your video and it looked to me like the motor is runnig counter clockwise. The motor should run clockwise.
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Have you tried backing off each valve 1/8 turn ? Try that it might tell us something.I cant imagine your engine being so timing sensitive--you've had the timing all over the place.You didnt give up did you?
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No, but my frustration level is through the roof. So take off my valve covers and back off all my valves 1/8 turn? When I adjusted them I tightened until it stoped tapping then went 1/4 turn more.
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So, I started loosening my rockers and they seem too loose if I back them off. So I put it back. The way they are now there is no play in the rocker, but I can spin the pushrod.
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So you think I could have bent some valves? How would I have done that with my rockers a 1/4-1\2 turn to tight? When I did it with the engine running before I started it that is about how much I loosened them to get it right. Plus I never heard a metallic noise.
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There was alot of assemly lube coating all of the parts, and I filled the oil through the heads with the valve covers off pouring it into each hole were the pushrods were evenly. That is when I had the rockers to tight. I tried starting it adjusting the timing and other assorted stuff and cranked it quite a bit. Then I took the play out and hit the key it fired right up and smoke a little bit from the assembly lube that was all over. I adjusted the all the lifters to stop tapping. Then backed off until it tapped and then tightened 1/4 turn after it stoped, 1 by one.
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This is the exerp on the package:
You get fully assembled Holley cylinder heads, an intake manifold, and a Lunati cam with 235°/240° duration at .050, .490/.490 in. lift, and 112° lobe separation. You also get lifters, hardened pushrods, head bolts, a double-roller timing chain and gears, and assembly lube.
The cam isn't very wild at all. Just more so than stock which is a dog.
You get fully assembled Holley cylinder heads, an intake manifold, and a Lunati cam with 235°/240° duration at .050, .490/.490 in. lift, and 112° lobe separation. You also get lifters, hardened pushrods, head bolts, a double-roller timing chain and gears, and assembly lube.
The cam isn't very wild at all. Just more so than stock which is a dog.