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I'm embarrassed now to say I drove the truck back home (ask my wife how fugggin angry I was
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While I was waiting for the wife to get back with the girls truck, I started pulling valve-covers off. Found #5's exhaust valve-spring retainer has shattered. Perhaps a quarter of the retainer is missing with the rocker-arm in it's place, else it's all still on the spring. One of the locks is sitting on the head adjacent to the spring.
Equestrian-pies!
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I've got the whole weekend to think about what I'm gonna do with this mess. Shoot, while I'm small-fry in the scheme of things, I've done a lot of business with Zach and respect what he has to say. So I went ahead and sent him a PM asking what he thought and what I might look for once I get to tearing into it.
Friends, that fella called me within 30 minutes of sending the PM. At his insistence, come Monday morning, he's over-nighting:
- A compression tester so I can verify the valve / head are OK.
- A valve-spring tool.
- A complete replacement set of titanium valve-spring retainers with hardened locks.
- A complete replacement set of push-rods.
WOW!
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