bigshineybike wrote:
I have been watching Matts misfortune on facebook and found this link again today as I am replacing rocker cover gaskets myself this week.
Do we think that;
Ignoring gradual leak down of the hydraulic lifters meant that in the workshop and during the process of turning the engine the valve was bent due to a temporarily over length push rod?
This might suggest the clickety noise he heard was not a loose lifter waiting to pump itself up nice and snug, but instead the lightly bent valve kissing the piston.
later that morning at highish speed the piston decided it didnt like being kissed and spat the valve out the exhaust and farted all over the crankshaft.
Or something ?
Ill wait for replies before i do much more.
by the way my factory manual doesn't cover the modern X1 HD gasket set, which way up do they go?
That is the most likely train of events , lots of people have been there but hopefully eventually the message will get across. the importent thing is to remove the rockers before removing the cam cover to prevent damaging the cam bushings and when rebuilding leave plenty of time for the lifters to bleed down and to tighten the rockers down very slowly.
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Recon I got off lightly. Thanks to 
