cool finally got pushrods on today, and the 1.6 rockers. its running quiter (engine noise) and i havnt driven it yet but hopefully its nice to me.

eric its about midnight now so ill come down tomorrow (friday) i get off at 4:30

i left my cell phone at my house so i cant call ya.

 

you have your cam and heads on there already when are you going to run it?

 

the cam and heads been on for a while. he broke a STOCK push rod so he changed them all and added some roller rockers I think

 

yup

 

how's the headers coming along Travis?

 

NO ITS NOT you broke another pushrod

 

their sitting in his trunk

 

heard about the hardened pushrod breaking incident..

hmm..

 

bummer Travis, just heard.
maybe i'll see y'all out tonight if you're hangin' late.

 

Saw your post earlier about running SA rockers and guideplates, you need to run, non-SA rockers. If you don't, you will/can have two opposing forces trying to keep things working together.

Hardened PR's are only case hardened for wear against the guideplate or head hole...they are not stronger, as in "made from stronger metal" to resist breaking or bending.


You should also check your PR geometry, use some marking compound on the valve tip, check comp or cranes website they have a pretty good explanation to see what to look for.

Hopefully you have it all worked out by now, but just an FYI.

 

i did put new rockers on and it still broke i believe it was a faulty lifter.

 

Good advice ^ there Travis.

I just happened to be doing some research of my own on updating my valvetrain and was reading about that.

http://www.compcams.com/information/Products/Pushrods/

I would've hooked you up with my comp roller rockers if that was the prob, but they are SA.

 

so you got ur pushing rods huh

 

Kind of a far stretch to look at the lifter as the cause, pushrods break from fatigue/stress from being in a bind.

I'd really suggest you look into the geometry and make sure you have the right length in there...I'm assuming when you mentioned "new rockers" you went with non-SA types.

 

Poor Travis, can't keep his rod up, lol. You need some viagra for your rod Travis, maybe that will help the pink fairy stop breaking your rod.