[cbatters]

Originally Posted by skunkworks

I would like to say that I didn't do the same thing but I did - Oil all over the place. When the vavle wasn't seating I tried to run the car for a little bit to see if it would re-seat. Big mistake. I also managed to foul my front 3 spark plugs at the same time. Thought I really screwed the engine up. I don't know if it was because I didn't have the front pcv tube plugged to the lower intake.

BTW - you can have my old lifters if you want - I am not going to use them (or resell them on ebay)

Be careful not to repeat all of my stupid mistakes... (You will REALLY feel like an idiot if you drop a valve like I did!)

ZERO COMPRESSION
You may have just answered my 3G lifter question. Do you think the valve not seating was due to a slow bleed-down of the new lifter after reinstallig the rocker arm?

OLD LIFTERS
Thanks for the offer. Very interested in seeing if I can figure out why your 1G lifters were noisy and mine are whisper quiet. PM me with your PayPal account so I can at least send you some $$ for S&H.

Beginning to think that what I was referring to as a latched/extended lifter may be the sign of a health injector. If it compresses easily, it would be noisy because there would be excessive valve lash. I believe a noisy injector is probably due to an internal clog / not a clog in the hole in the top of the injector.

TWO QUESTIONS:
1. How bad were your old VSS?

2. My head has the look of scorched oil while the DOHC head I have on the bench with ~110K is still silver/gray (although it was from a N/A engine). What did the head on your engine look like?


Clint