So before removing the driver side rocker arm assembly, I noticed that a valve spring at cylinder #2 appeared overly compressed. After reseating the push rods and installing the rocker arm assembly, that valve spring appeared to be less compressed. After quite a few boughts of cranking I got the engine to run, but at lower RPM engine is rough, it dies at idle, and there is a new unfamiliar noise at cylinder #2. When checking head nut torque, I had to remove a little material at edge of each intake gasket to accommodate a socket onto the upper middle head nuts. I re-sealed that gasket with black RTV so I highly doubt the noise I'm hearing is air being sucked in between intake runner and head. There's no excuse here just a hard lesson learned; be damned sure the push rods are properly seated AND STAY SEATED during rocker arms installation. I found that slightly turning each push rod helped ensure that it was seated in the lifter. Neil. On 5/16/17, Neil N <musomuso@gmail.com> wrote: > After checking head nut torque, i re installed the rocker arms (i was > careful to ensure push rods were seated to liftrs), cranked the engine, and > as it fired for a split second, i heard a "clack clack". After that it only > cranked and sounded like it possibly had less compression. I removed > the rockers on driver side, checked pushrod to rocker alignment, but one > push rod (lifter) now seems to be out too far thus not allowing "easy" re > installation of the rocker. That same set of rockers installed easily > before. > > Could the "clack clack" noise have been a misaligned pushrod to lifter? I > think i saw this mentioned in someone elses post here, but could a > misaligned pushrod to lifter cause the retaining clip on lifter to come > loose or otherwise damage the lifter?
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