West MI

[sublime_whatigo]

Originally Posted by motomaniac06

its a 92rt tt that im working on , but i also have a 94 vr4 and a 92rt tt parts car

Good to hear, Im on #5 of parts car I think. You dont know the guy on here named "bookeditar" do you, he hasnt been around much lately but he used to have a parts car and a TT of some kind. Lived in holland also, I think I met him once.

Oh and if your up for it I'll probably do another 3S BBQ at my house, it was a pretty good turn out last year.

[gg3000gt]

Originally Posted by sublime_whatigo

Good to hear, Im on #5 of parts car I think. You dont know the guy on here named "bookeditar" do you, he hasnt been around much lately but he used to have a parts car and a TT of some kind. Lived in holland also, I think I met him once.

Oh and if your up for it I'll probably do another 3S BBQ at my house, it was a pretty good turn out last year.

had a great time last, year hopefuly u will do it agian

[motomaniac06]

i do know of a few guy in holland that owned 3s's but dont know if they were on here. yea, ide probably be up for that bbq i wouldnt mind meeting some of the people that post here.

[jacob666]

SOS matt lol. Well anyone that can help.

So I pulled both valve covers to replace the gaskets. I'm just casually inspecting my heads and um ya about that! I believe its called a rocker arm is missing on my rear bank middle cylinder.

this thing:


where do I go from here, where can I get one, how do i replace it, and do i have the tools???! lol

[sublime_whatigo]

Originally Posted by jacob666

SOS matt lol. Well anyone that can help.

So I pulled both valve covers to replace the gaskets. I'm just casually inspecting my heads and um ya about that! I believe its called a rocker arm is missing on my rear bank middle cylinder.

this thing:


where do I go from here, where can I get one, how do i replace it, and do i have the tools???! lol

Wow, you sure its not hiding in the head somewhere? Makes me wonder if that motor had jumped timing in the past. Very odd, I never had that valve cover off before so dont look at me If it has jumped time before that valve is bent, do a compression test on that cylinder before you do anything, if compression is good then you can replace it, also compression test afterwards to make sure.

Well you can get it my shed, lol. And since you probably dont want to pull the timing belt off to do it.... you have to compress the valve spring, ive done it before with a screwdriver but I dont reccomend it.

Search for homemade valve spring compressor and you can make a tool for cheap. Should make your car run a little healthier with that, hehe.

edit. dsm's also use that rocker, not positive that all of them did.

[motomaniac06]

sublime, do you have a myspace? i have a few questions about the tb not sure if you can anwser them, but i have some pics on my -space w/ explainations (dont know how to post pics on here yet)

[jacob666]

Originally Posted by motomaniac06

sublime, do you have a myspace? i have a few questions about the tb not sure if you can anwser them, but i have some pics on my -space w/ explainations (dont know how to post pics on here yet)

myspace.com/ his screen name.

now to Matt:
sry if you wanted to remain inconspicuous

and ok so let me get this straight.
Step 1: Compression Test
Step 2: build or somehow acquire compressor for valve spring
Step 3: get rocker from you?

Could this be causing my hard starts and/or my 17.7 1/4 mile? lol
Also if it doesn't have good compression, then what?
and ya i had never pulled the cover either, i had taken the plenum to replace the plugs but never took that off. probably a good thing i did tho that and the gaskets i had to scrape off lol
*edit* also do I need to put the plenum valve covers and everything back on to do a compression test?

[B-Rad]

Matt. I'm down for another BBQ. Anyone else?

[jacob666]

Originally Posted by B-Rad

Matt. I'm down for another BBQ. Anyone else?

+1

And I might bring a clan of ES's with me possibly up to 7 es's lol but we'll have to see.

[sublime_whatigo]

Originally Posted by jacob666

+1

And I might bring a clan of ES's with me possibly up to 7 es's lol but we'll have to see.

7 wow.

For your rocker though, you got the order down. Normally you take off the whole cam to do it but thats a lot of extra work. Look at the pics some people have up on 3si about the homemade tool. You should easily be able to figure it out, just dont compress the spring any farther than you have to or the keepers for the valve spring could fly out.

You can go ahead and do a compression test with it all apart just pull the ecu fuse so the car doesnt try and start. If you have bad compression then that valve may be bent and the head would have to come off.

If you have fine compression I dont know how much of a difference you'll notice as you have 1 other intake or exhaust valve that works fine yet, but it will help some.