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How do you check valvetrain operation?? #676223 04/20/10 10:04 PM 04/20/10 10:04 PM
Joined: Aug 2003 Posts: 4,481 Mesa, AZ P Pat_Whalen OP super gas
Pat_Whalen OP super gas P Joined: Aug 2003 Posts: 4,481 Mesa, AZ	While the engine is running, how do you check valvetrain operation to make sure everything is getting properly oiled? Reason I ask is that I've got this whicked squeek going on and it sounds like it's coming from around the 7/5 hole. You can also hear some tapping occurring back in that area. What's the best way to make sure it is getting oiled properly. Since the squeeking has started, am I ultimately screwed? Thanks, Pat

Re: How do you check valvetrain operation?? [Re: Pat_Whalen] #676224 04/20/10 10:20 PM 04/20/10 10:20 PM
Joined: Jan 2003 Posts: 25,200 Upper Midwest M MoparforLife Too Many Posts
MoparforLife Too Many Posts M Joined: Jan 2003 Posts: 25,200 Upper Midwest	Take off the valve cover and start the engine.

Re: How do you check valvetrain operation?? [Re: MoparforLife] #676225 04/20/10 10:27 PM 04/20/10 10:27 PM
Joined: Aug 2003 Posts: 4,481 Mesa, AZ P Pat_Whalen OP super gas
Pat_Whalen OP super gas P Joined: Aug 2003 Posts: 4,481 Mesa, AZ	Quote: Take off the valve cover and start the engine. This may be a stupid question, but won't oil go flying everywhere?

Re: How do you check valvetrain operation?? [Re: Pat_Whalen] #676226 04/20/10 10:41 PM 04/20/10 10:41 PM
Joined: Jan 2003 Posts: 32,994 Grand Prairie,Texas stumpy I Win
stumpy I Win Joined: Jan 2003 Posts: 32,994 Grand Prairie,Texas	If you are worried about that then just cut the top out of a valve cover and bolt it on. You can then watch the rockers work and not get oil everwhere. Oil won't squirt all over and it will drain back down the returns as normal.

Re: How do you check valvetrain operation?? [Re: stumpy] #676227 04/20/10 10:48 PM 04/20/10 10:48 PM
Joined: Aug 2003 Posts: 4,481 Mesa, AZ P Pat_Whalen OP super gas
Pat_Whalen OP super gas P Joined: Aug 2003 Posts: 4,481 Mesa, AZ	Quote: If you are worried about that then just cut the top out of a valve cover and bolt it on. You can then watch the rockers work and not get oil everwhere. Oil won't squirt all over and it will drain back down the returns as normal. I guess my only reservation about it is because I've never done it before. If it's just a little oil that gets spray around, I don't care. It it starts gushing out, I don't imagine that's a good thing. Never mind the fact that I don't have a spare set of valvecovers.

Re: How do you check valvetrain operation?? [Re: Pat_Whalen] #676228 04/20/10 11:02 PM 04/20/10 11:02 PM
Joined: Nov 2003 Posts: 36,041 Lincoln Nebraska R RapidRobert Circle Track
RapidRobert Circle Track R Joined: Nov 2003 Posts: 36,041 Lincoln Nebraska	not likely an oiling prob. Pull the VC and start w a good visual inspection & see what you uncover live every 24 hour block of time like it's your last day on earth

Re: How do you check valvetrain operation?? [Re: RapidRobert] #676229 04/21/10 06:24 AM 04/21/10 06:24 AM
Joined: May 2003 Posts: 15,487 Florida S scratchnfotraction I Live Here
scratchnfotraction I Live Here S Joined: May 2003 Posts: 15,487 Florida	yea pat just pull the covers and run it a short time to see if it oiling them you wont have that much of a mess for a short time look to see if the are dry,if they are dry pull the shaft and check the rockers for scuffing on the shaft Last edited by scratchnfotraction; 04/21/10 06:25 AM.

Re: How do you check valvetrain operation?? [Re: scratchnfotraction] #676230 04/21/10 11:44 AM 04/21/10 11:44 AM
Joined: Jan 2010 Posts: 456 Santa Barbara, CA HitIt mopar
HitIt mopar Joined: Jan 2010 Posts: 456 Santa Barbara, CA	You could pull the distibrutor and prime the oil pump with the VC's off. That should get you the same effect without having to actually run the engine.

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