[T3] valve woes

B Fye bfye at canyonville.net
Thu May 22 13:57:38 PDT 2014


This is why I suggested watching the valves move.  Flat cams have very little motion on the valve train

Brian Fye

> On May 22, 2014, at 1:47 PM, Fiesta Cranberry <fiestacranberry at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> Ground cams are a big mistake, you lose the hardness layer.  You can see if
> this is a problem thru the sump though, look at the lobes.
> 
> We took off the oil filler plate, but there is a sort of another plate or
> dome above that that blocks off most vision to the inside.  Lloyd says he
> could see the lifters and cam lobe, and they looked OK.
> 
> What kind of damage, and how bad, would be caused by putting in longer
> pushrods?
> 
> Lori
> 
> 
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