[Shotimes] Slight ticking from below intake

[Jeremy Grimm]

Well lemme tell ya...

My 89...had stage 1 cams put in at 8k (so this just might invalidate my 
point but...) I then did the 60k service at 62k miles. When I pulled the 
valve covers to do the lash adj, you will never guess what I found.

EVERY single valve was out of spec. But it gets worse...2 shims had a hole 
the size of a dime blown through them and 4 others were VERY concave, and 
all of the rest of the shims were showing wear.

Now what did this all translate into? $2300 worth of repairs. I had to 
replace all 4 cams and have both the front and rear head rebuit. The valve 
buckets (for the 2 shims with holes in em) had been tore up bad!

Now...had the previous owner had the lash checked when he first heard the 
valve train ticking...all of this hassle and cost could have been avoided. 
It really isn't that hard to do the lash adjustment. I did it myself in a 
weekend.

And all you need are a good set of tools and the confidence to turn a 
wrench.

Now if you can get your hands on a Helm's manual...and or the Nunnaly 60k 
video that's even better. When I set out to do this project I had 0 
experience working on the SHO engine. So with that in mind...

Save yourself the heartache later of having to replace the cams...check that 
Lash every 60k.

Man that sure sounded preachy...sorry guys...

Hmm...I need a distraction....

LOOK -------->BEER!



Jeremy Grimm
89 sho
65k miles...
forge_monkey@hotmail.com





>From: "Erik Balser" <masho95@attbi.com>
>To: "van Oss" <vanOss@centurytel.net>, <shotimes@autox.team.net>
>Subject: Re: [Shotimes] Slight ticking from below intake
>Date: Thu, 31 Oct 2002 13:03:51 -0500
>
>I have 83K on the odometer, and valve lash has never been adjusted.. but i
>just have such a hard time believing that is needs to be done already, I've
>talk to a lot of Ford shops that people have brought SHO's to and they said
>they've never seen one under 100K that's needed to be done...maybe they
>don't know what they're doing though.,... i don't know
>
>'95 MTX
>masho95
>http://home.attbi.com/~masho95
>----- Original Message -----
>From: "van Oss" <vanOss@centurytel.net>
>To: "Erik Balser" <masho95@attbi.com>
>Sent: Thursday, October 31, 2002 11:43 AM
>Subject: Re: [Shotimes] Slight ticking from below intake
>
>
> > What's your mileage?  You might be hearing valve lash.  When was the 
>last
> > time valve lash was adjusted?
> >
> > Joseph
> >
> >
> > ----- Original Message -----
> > From: "Erik Balser" <masho95@attbi.com>
> > To: <shotimes@autox.team.net>
> > Sent: Thursday, October 31, 2002 10:32 AM
> > Subject: [Shotimes] Slight ticking from below intake
> >
> >
> > Lately when opening the hood you can hear a slight ticking noise
>constantly
> > from just under the intake.  Obviously it's probably something with the
>cams
> > turning.  My question is, how normal is a noise like this, could nothing
>be
> > wrong?  I've always remembered my SHO's having this sound so maybe it's
>not
> > bad? Is this just the engine noise or is there a problem indicated?
> >
> > '95 MTX
> > masho95
> > http://home.attbi.com/~masho95
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