Re: Sticking Valve
Well, more than a month has passed since I last posted anything regarding my "sticking valve". As it has turned out the valve was fine and not sticking. I have come to the conclusion that the problem was a blown head gasket.
Since the last posting, I have had the valves ground, the head decked, rebuilt the distributor, oil pump, and purchased a repop original style exhaust manifold. Today I finally got it all back together again. Started right up, just like it always has, and ran it for 15 minutes as instructed with the head gasket. Will retorque the head nuts later this week.
One issue that I have run into, it that when I went to retorque the manifold nuts after running, as instructed with the manifold, I broke off one of the studs (all new studs), and I had not even reached the recommended torque (45 ft-lbs) yet.
To make a long story short, I removed the manifolds, removed the broken stud, and reassembled everything. Now I am a little gun shy regarding trying to torque the nuts so tight. I have them tight now, about 35 ft-lbs, but am reluctant to tighten any more. The nuts do not feel like they are getting real tight, I assume that there is a lot of give in the copper/asbestos gasket. Any ideas? I really don't want to break another stud, I think I was lucky getting it out this time and don't want to push my luck.
Other than the little issue above the engine sounds great, but will do a compression check next week to see if everything is OK. Thanks for all the good advice.
Chris H
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