Ahhh Crap!!!!! Bad lifter?

[Chryco Psycho]

 

[RUNCHARGER]

Excellent, fingers still crossed for you.

[Cudajason]

Excellent, fingers still crossed for you.

Yeah,,I think I am through the biggest hurdle, proper cam break in with no apparent issues.

I am thinking about next steps...

I think its drop the break in oil, new filter..but it only has 20 mins run time on it???  Do I really need to change it?

I think I should change out the valve springs now, only running the outer springs for break in.  I don't think I need to drive it any distance with just the outer springs.

I just don't want to screw it up again, and would like to put some miles on it next weekend, so I find myself second guessing everything at this point!!!

Jason

[Chryco Psycho]

I would leave the oil for 4-500 miles , but I would put int he extra valve springs now

[Cudajason]

Well fired the car up last night...it started, sounded good...that is all I got done...crazy at work again.

My son's last day at school is tomorrow, so I plan to pull the car out and drive him to school for his last day, which had been our tradition since he started school.

I figure the 5 min drive there and back will not bee too hard on the inner valve springs.

Jason

[YellowThumper]

That is very cool. I sort of did the same thing with my daughter. She graduated from hs a couple weeks ago. She drove to school in the same car her mom drove in hs (albeit much nicer).
Not an E so I am only showing her happiness.
They will remember those memories forever.

[Chryco Psycho]

How is it running ??

[Cudajason]

How is it running ??

Seems to be running good. Went about 5 miles today. No tickity tick!

It ran a little hotter the I would like... 190 - 200 idling in traffic, but its a super hot day!

Looks like its on the swapping the valve springs...again.

Jason

[YellowThumper]

Great to hear!

[Cudajason]

All prepped for tomorrow!!!   

Sigh...this is getting old.

Any tips that I may have missed the fist time I did this. With no pressure on the lifters and cam I would imagine its had to damage anything.

Last time I went cylinder by cylinder just letting the air pressure more the pistons down each time. I did not worry about finding TDC each time. Could that cause a problem?

Jason

[jimynick]

Not likely Jason as long as you don't drop a valve in the process, since you're not altering the timing. Let's not go there, eh? Are your installed heights all done? 

[Chryco Psycho]

no problem at all , air pressure will move the piston to the bottom as you change springs
The other way I have done it is using a soft rope fed in the spark plug hole & rotate the engine to pinch the rope against the valves

[bennydodge]

The "piston at the top of it's stroke" method hasn't failed me yet even with low compression(.055 down) pistons. Hard to lose a valve that way.

[Cudakiller70]

no problem at all , air pressure will move the piston to the bottom as you change springs
The other way I have done it is using a soft rope fed in the spark plug hole & rotate the engine to pinch the rope against the valves

Had good results with Rope method, worked well for me. Air made me nervous as CP noted why.

[Chryco Psycho]

I often had no compressed air where I was working so the soft rope worked great