Thread: 235 I6 stuck lifter

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the engines fine, the valve only appears bent, from looking ontop thru the oil fill hole. anyway, filled up my soda bottle tank, fired the car up, and moved it into the other garage, by the time I got it in the other garage, the lifter had stopped making noise, when I looked at the temp gauge, it was just starting to get warm. I let it run until it was at operating temp, and then shut it off.

glad to hear you didn't have a bent valve... those always are a pain.... i've had them take out valve seats, pistons and even cylinder walls.... not fun

Those old 6 Cyl engine got their oil through a passageway that came up along side of a head bolt ( the centre one I think ) to the rocker shaft. In the old days it was a common thing to take the head bolt out and clean the sludge out of the passageway. If it ran long enough like that you may have a problem with the rocker ball and pushrod seats as they would wear from lack of luberication.

Bob

Originally Posted by Bob W

Those old 6 Cyl engine got their oil through a passageway that came up along side of a head bolt ( the centre one I think ) to the rocker shaft. In the old days it was a common thing to take the head bolt out and clean the sludge out of the passageway. If it ran long enough like that you may have a problem with the rocker ball and pushrod seats as they would wear from lack of luberication.

Bob

to me it looked like everything had oil on it ( wasn't dry, just that the lifter was ither not pumping up, or it was stuck.

That valve looked bent because the intakes are at a different angle than the exhausts. Glad to hear it started running better on its own. I'd try some Rislone in the oil, and an oil change after a few runs.