- 1. Valve Bounce (score: 1)
- Author: Unknown
- Date: Sat, 2 Feb 2002 08:33:25 -0700
- How can you tell if you're getting valve bounce at high rpms? Is there a distinctive sound? Does the engine miss? Acceleration flatten out? Engine blow up? How does one know? And what are the cures
- /html/triumphs/2002-02/msg00068.html (7,282 bytes)
- 2. Re: Valve Bounce (score: 1)
- Author: Unknown
- Date: Sat, 2 Feb 2002 13:13:36 EST
- More commonly known as valve 'float...probably weak valve springs. See this site for further info... http://www.caranddriver.com/xp/Caranddriver/glossary/glossary_u_z.xml Larry M TR250 CD5182L /// t
- /html/triumphs/2002-02/msg00075.html (7,185 bytes)
- 3. Re: Valve Bounce (score: 1)
- Author: Unknown
- Date: Sat, 2 Feb 2002 11:44:41 -0700
- Thanks Larry, The site you listed has lots of good info.. Thanks Bud 71TR6 CC57365 (Good 6) 66TR4A CTC57806 (The Wreck-Almost Parts) 66TR4A CTC57529 (The Project) -- Original Message -- From: LaJoMor
- /html/triumphs/2002-02/msg00077.html (8,080 bytes)
- 4. RE: Valve Bounce (score: 1)
- Author: Unknown
- Date: Sat, 2 Feb 2002 11:10:52 -0800
- Bud, although I'm sure it makes a racket, I've never been able to hear it over the general engine noise. Main thing is lack of power, which comes on rather more suddenly than just lack of breathing.
- /html/triumphs/2002-02/msg00078.html (7,524 bytes)
- 5. Re: Valve Bounce (score: 1)
- Author: Unknown
- Date: Sat, 2 Feb 2002 13:54:43 -0600
- Float is marked by a drop-off in power and a peculiar "flat" exhaust note. Been there, done that, whilst autocrossing a Formula Vee whose second gear I could not find on downshifts. The owner told m
- /html/triumphs/2002-02/msg00080.html (7,940 bytes)
- 6. Re: Valve Bounce (score: 1)
- Author: Unknown
- Date: Sun, 3 Feb 2002 20:22:50 EST
- << List, How can you tell if you're getting valve bounce at high rpms? Is there a distinctive sound? Does the engine miss? Acceleration flatten out? >> Listen to the intake noise as it will get loude
- /html/triumphs/2002-02/msg00125.html (7,951 bytes)
- 7. RE: Valve Bounce (score: 1)
- Author: Unknown
- Date: Sun, 3 Feb 2002 17:40:45 -0800
- Pumped-up lifters are a somewhat different phenomenon, brought on by valve float. Since the TR2-6 have solid lifters, they are not prone to this particular problem. Some aftermarket hydraulic lifter
- /html/triumphs/2002-02/msg00126.html (7,358 bytes)
- 8. Re: Valve Bounce (score: 1)
- Author: Unknown
- Date: Mon, 4 Feb 2002 23:34:07 -0600
- From ZinkZ10C at aol.com <ZinkZ10C@aol.com> motors at Maybe not the piston, but what about other valves. Most four-valve heads have valves that will hit each other if something goes awry. Many single
- /html/triumphs/2002-02/msg00182.html (7,899 bytes)
- 9. Re: Valve Bounce (score: 1)
- Author: Unknown
- Date: Wed, 6 Feb 2002 00:04:50 EST
- We disassembled a friends 1500 motor that made a terrible racket as he wound through the gears. I never heard it, but he said that it sounded like a very loud rattle. He even turned around on a Sunda
- /html/triumphs/2002-02/msg00216.html (7,431 bytes)
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