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Old Aug 26, 2005 | 09:55 AM
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Default The Death of the Firechikin

So, I decded to fix the heads on the ol' Dirty Bird rather than buy a new car. It was like an 8 hour task between 3 of us, but we finally got the car back together (with its new heads complete with a 3 angle valve job, bitches ) and after a long 2 nights of screaming at the car about how fucking stupid GM's techs are, it was time to start it up.

Crank....the valves aren't closing, we can hear it...Crank, crank...still nothing - double-you-tee-eff, the lifters should've had time to collapse by now?

Come to find out, we overlooked a very important fact...The bird uses adjustable lifters, and we torqued the fuckers all the way down thinking they were non-adjustable....

...Ripped the motor apart to find my pushrods had become pretzels, a few rockers had been broken, and we haven't been able to tear everything out to lift the heads and inspect the valves yet.

Does anyone know where I can get any heads/valves/rockers/pushrods - aftermarket or OEM, just anything I can get a decent deal on - to fix this? Also, are there any other places in the engine I should check for problems due to this little mishap?
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