Maybe this has been addressed already but I have seen rocker arm ends
become concave after much contact with the valve stems. A feeler gauge
won't detect this so you won't get a true gap setting the ordinary way.
The fix for this is to grind the rocker faces smooth.
Jack
-----Original Message-----
From: owner-healeys@autox.team.net [mailto:owner-healeys@autox.team.net]
On Behalf Of Drtrite@aol.com
Sent: Sunday, March 05, 2006 11:39 PM
To: healeymanjim@JoiMail.com; healeys@autox.team.net
Subject: Re: stump the chumps
In a message dated 3/5/06 8:20:28 PM Pacific Standard Time,
healeymanjim@JoiMail.com writes:
as tom and ray will say, it is now time to "stump the chump". a few
weeks ago, i adjusted the valves on a bj8. no click and no clack. a
new distributor cap and wires were added last week. the owner tells
there is a tick in the engine again. today i adjusteds the valves at
least three times and could not get rid of the tick Just by chance, have
you checked the nut that holds the harmonic balancer on?
On a trip from Texas to Daytona Beach a number of years ago the nut came
lose and I swore it was valve train noise.
Don Lenschow
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