Ernie ingling
Well-Known Member
Well if it won’t budge there’s your answer. Now do you tear down or roll the dice?
Yikes! Time to go through it and verify. With a rusty water pump, check for scale throughout the water passages and suspect freeze plugs which rust from the inside out.So at this point I know the heads (eddy's)are going to have to come off so I already planned to have them blown apart and then I will do a mild bench polish on them and have everything checked and clearanced. As I was disassembling the motor I ran across a couple of items that had me questioning the bonifides of the engine builder. Intake bolts were barely finger tight, water pump impeller was completely rusted off and some other minor torque issues here and there. Knowing that Eddy heads tend to come out of the box with issues its worth the cost to have them gone over prior to reassembly.
When my rods came back from resizing, they were not all the same length.So far I have the pan off and have inspected the cylinder walls. Minor scoring in the #7 and #8 cylinders. All the others are clean. Removed the oil pump and disassembled it, seems like it took the majority of the damage. Major scoring in the oil pump cylinder and race. Ill get the heads off this week and pop those 2 pistons out to see if they are damaged.
On another note I see that the rods were all marked with a punch indicating what cylinder they should be and which caps match to each rod. Is there any concern that when they installed them they did not put the rods in the same order? #3 is in #5 hole #4 6 and 8 are all in the wrong hole. As long as the cap and rod #,s match is there any concern with them not being in the correct hole?
Check spring free length maybe to high also did you notice spring coils touching installed?
If that were the case I would expect that some pushrods would be bent. The spring doesn't compress the valve, it returns it to the seat. I'm confused by the term 'hydraulic rocker'. I think I'd look further. I wish you luck.I got my new springs, locks, and retainers in today and mocked one up on the head to check fitment. I noticed that the old valve locks fit the old and new retainers badly. They form almost an oval hole over the valve stem whereas the new ones fit perfectly. I think this is what caused the issue. It seems this was causing the spring to bind so it would not compress the valve. In turn the hydraulic rocker probably bottomed out from the extra pressure of the spring not compressing ultimately chewing up the lifter.
If that were the case I would expect that some pushrods would be bent. The spring doesn't compress the valve, it returns it to the seat. I'm confused by the term 'hydraulic rocker'. I think I'd look further. I wish you luck.