In days gone by, a dampener could be purchased and used inside the valve
cover. It bolted to the top of the rockers to muffle valve lash noise (a
big rectangular thing). I've only seen a couple of these as they are very
scarce. I guess one could be cobbled up.
Even though there is considerable valve noise (compared to a modern engine),
it's normal, so I don't worry about it for stock and medium warm inline
builds.
Allen in Seattle
'50 3100
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From: <237459N@knotes.kodak.com>
To: <Passnb4U@aol.com>; <oletrucks-digest@autox.team.net>
Sent: Thursday, November 09, 2000 4:51 AM
Subject: [oletrucks] tappet adjustment
>
>
> From: W P. Fricke
>
> I wish you luck and would like to hear the outcome. I did an adjustment to
> my '53 this summer. It was noisy, otherwise ran well (very well). I warmed
> up the engine thorougly, running around town doing chores. I dove into the
> garage with it and had my son bump the engine. I went through each valve
in
> the correct order according to specs. I remember one intake valve and one
> exhaust valve that were out of spec. I hoped those to be the causes of my
> clacking. I buttoned it up with a new cork gasket and ended up with
> basically the same performance as before: runs well but noisy. So what's
> the problem and whats the solution?
>
> Good luck and let us know how you make out.
>
> Patrick
>
>
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