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Old Oct 11, 2024 | 04:58 PM
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Default I think a lifter broken
Sound right? It sure sounds like it...

Time to re-do the top end...I guess...
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https://photos.app.goo.gl/2hHCKLeLT19kN4W36

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What is linked there isn't a video.
 
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Originally Posted by jeffersonracing
What is linked there isn't a video.
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try this

https://photos.app.goo.gl/2hHCKLeLT19kN4W36
 
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Pull the valve cover, see what you find. Might have just spit out a rocker.
 
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Originally Posted by ElkCon
Sound right? It sure sounds like it...
Only 2 things make that noise, a lifter issue, or an exhaust leak.
 
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Originally Posted by alloro
Only 2 things make that noise, a lifter issue, or an exhaust leak.
yepper

going to start tearing it down...

to get the lifters out, I have to take off the rockers? right? I remember being able to get to them without taking the heads off...but i think I had to take the rockers out...
its been 10 years since I did this
 
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Yep, rockers and pushrods.
 
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Originally Posted by ElkCon
to get the lifters out, I have to take off the rockers? right?
Yes, and the intake as well, since the lifter retainer brackets are under it. Well, at least on my V6, I don't know if the V8s are different.

 
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Yea I remember that @alloro :lol: I had to put new head on my old v6..the heads had the cracking issue...

I started tearing it down...not too bad..Ill post some pics tomorrow
 
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almost got there today


 
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