hi folks !!! im a dummy. i hope i dont get thrown off this forum for being so dumb. but i dont understand something . the guy at L-C Engineering told me that i dont have to take all of the head bolts out, to remove the rocker arm assembly from a 22RE. he said i only need to take off the two at the front and the two at the back! i thought y'had to take all the head bolts out , and if y'did that than you've de-torqued the head ... and if'n did that y'run the risk of blowin the head gasket if y'dont replace it and chase out the threds!!! am i really this dumb?
hi folks !!! im a dummy. i hope i dont get thrown off this forum for being so dumb. but i dont understand something . the guy at L-C Engineering told me that i dont have to take all of the head bolts out, to remove the rocker arm assembly from a 22RE. he said i only need to take off the two at the front and the two at the back! i thought y'had to take all the head bolts out , and if y'did that than you've de-torqued the head ... and if'n did that y'run the risk of blowin the head gasket if y'dont replace it and chase out the threds!!! am i really this dumb?
if you are doing anything to the head why dont you just go and buy a head gasket for $20-30 and take care of handling a problem now that could rear its ugly head in the future.. i
its not a hard job and i would take care of it while i was in ther...
just a thought... its that once of prevention is worth a pound of cure thing...
hi folks !!! im a dummy. i hope i dont get thrown off this forum for being so dumb. but i dont understand something . the guy at L-C Engineering told me that i dont have to take all of the head bolts out, to remove the rocker arm assembly from a 22RE. he said i only need to take off the two at the front and the two at the back! i thought y'had to take all the head bolts out , and if y'did that than you've de-torqued the head ... and if'n did that y'run the risk of blowin the head gasket if y'dont replace it and chase out the threds!!! am i really this dumb?
Well thats the first I have heard. I have looked at the diagrams and it looked to me like the Rocker girdles required al lthe head bolts to be removed. I would like to know though because I have an issue that I could resovle if I can get the rockers off. Taking 4 bolts loose you might get away with not having to replace the HG. Its a pain in the butt jub to do a head gasket if you do it right.
hi folks !!! im a dummy. i hope i dont get thrown off this forum for being so dumb. but i dont understand something . the guy at L-C Engineering told me that i dont have to take all of the head bolts out, to remove the rocker arm assembly from a 22RE. he said i only need to take off the two at the front and the two at the back! i thought y'had to take all the head bolts out , and if y'did that than you've de-torqued the head ... and if'n did that y'run the risk of blowin the head gasket if y'dont replace it and chase out the threds!!! am i really this dumb?
Never tried that..... I always pull the whole thing off. I guess that might work if you didn't need to get the cam out, right? Or would you be able to get the cam out, too? (It's been a while since I've been inside a 22RE)
Never tried that..... I always pull the whole thing off. I guess that might work if you didn't need to get the cam out, right? Or would you be able to get the cam out, too? (It's been a while since I've been inside a 22RE)
No I don't need the cam out. Not sure about the guy that started the thread.
Some ass munch machinest fawked up the head on my truck (before I owned it). He over shaved it and to fix that he over ground the valve seats. So the stems are sitting at too high. With the lash correct at the adjuster the actuall rocker is hitting the top of the stem. I need to remove a little off the top of the stem to fix the problem to get the valve to fully seal. Its still a hack job but if I can get another 50k out of the motor it would be worth trying. :shaking:
What if you just grind a little off the bottom of each rocker so the adjuster hits the stem? That way if you fawk one up you can replace it easier than a valve....
What if you just grind a little off the bottom of each rocker so the adjuster hits the stem? That way if you fawk one up you can replace it easier than a valve....
No, I mean grind down where the threaded adjuster sticks out the bottom of the rocker. Maybe I'm not understanding Grim Reaper's problem fully... I thought he meant that he has to turn the adjuster out so far that the actual rocker is hitting the stem and the threaded adjuster is just along for the ride and not actually doing anything???
No, I mean grind down where the threaded adjuster sticks out the bottom of the rocker. Maybe I'm not understanding Grim Reaper's problem fully... I thought he meant that he has to turn the adjuster out so far that the actual rocker is hitting the stem and the threaded adjuster is just along for the ride and not actually doing anything???
What if you just grind a little off the bottom of each rocker so the adjuster hits the stem? That way if you fawk one up you can replace it easier than a valve....
That may actually be the easer fix. If I didn't get the grind on the top to the stem square then as the valeve rotates it would have a changing lash. On a couple of the rockers with the adjuster OUT I cant get a .004 though there.
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