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07-24-2020, 11:24 AM
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Join Date: Aug 2014
Location: Mill Valley,
CA
Cobra Make, Engine: ERA FIA #2064 BOSS 302 CSX2047 sold
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Brent, thanks for chiming in... Do think it is legit for me to check my solid rollers just by using a stethoscope most of the time or am I pissing in my shoes?
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07-24-2020, 12:14 PM
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Join Date: Dec 2001
Location: Louisville,
KY
Cobra Make, Engine: I'm Cobra-less!
Posts: 9,417
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Quote:
Originally Posted by Kit Coyle
Brent, thanks for chiming in... Do think it is legit for me to check my solid rollers just by using a stethoscope most of the time or am I pissing in my shoes?
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I would pull the valve covers and check them, hot, engine off, and run through on the IVC/EVO method.
Solid rollers can bite you hard when the lifters die, I would wanna know if lash changed even by .001-.002”. |
07-24-2020, 12:21 PM
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Join Date: Jun 2005
Cobra Make, Engine: ERA #732, 428FE (447 CID), TKO600, Solid Flat Tappet Cam, Tons of Aluminum
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Quote:
Originally Posted by blykins
I would pull the valve covers and check them ... engine off
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Uhhhh, how 'bout engine on, cameras running?  |
07-24-2020, 12:30 PM
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Join Date: Jun 2005
Cobra Make, Engine: ERA #732, 428FE (447 CID), TKO600, Solid Flat Tappet Cam, Tons of Aluminum
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... and if you're going to set your solid lifters with the engine running, you might as well use a really big ass wrench on them to get some leverage. 
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07-24-2020, 01:37 PM
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Join Date: Sep 2018
Location: Howell,
NJ
Cobra Make, Engine: Backdraft Car #1209 Roush 427R
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Your car
Considering I don't own a car with solids and haven't in 50 years we should try it on yours. Where are you located? Didn't have rollers back then on the car which might make it a little harder. You are not going to tell me you pulled a valve cover just to take the wrench picture are you? 
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Originally Posted by patrickt
... and if you're going to set your solid lifters with the engine running, you might as well use a really big ass wrench on them to get some leverage.
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07-24-2020, 02:35 PM
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Join Date: Jun 2005
Cobra Make, Engine: ERA #732, 428FE (447 CID), TKO600, Solid Flat Tappet Cam, Tons of Aluminum
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No, I had that pic stashed away from a few years ago when someone posted a thread saying they couldn't get the rocker lash nut loose (which is usually only torqued to about 20 ft/lbs). Anyway, it did occur to me that I own a tool that might actually work with the engine running. It is a tool similar to the old P&G Valve Gapper tool. If it didn't get thrown off the rocker, and then eat something up in the process, I think it would indeed work while the engine was running.
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