Carl's 98 auto AWD project Black Magic

[scheides]

Hot damn! Where did you find the rocker, just chilling next to the spring? Hope its back on the road soon! Easy fix it looks like.

[carltalon]

Hot damn! Where did you find the rocker, just chilling next to the spring? Hope its back on the road soon! Easy fix it looks like.

It was sitting in the oil return hole between on the exhaust side between cylinder 2 & 3. I pulled it out with a magnet it is undamaged. Hopefully it is a easy fix I want it to be in top shape for Proving Grounds.

[carltalon]

Well, no such think as a easy fix i guess. I made a spring compessor after work yesterday and put the rocker back in with the old lifter. The engine still runs the same. At this point I assume the valve is bent so i did a compression test. My compression tester doesnt read right but it verified that there is no compression on cly 2. I am going to borrow my buddies tester tonight to verify ny results and I will probly be pulling the head tonight after work.
Here are a fe pics of my homemade valve spring compressor I am going to try to find a longer bolt at work to elimincate the two I had to weld together. I am pretty happy with it for making it from parts from the hardwar racks at work.

http://i1124.photobucket.com/albums/l569/Carl_Simonson/20130603_183814_zps3992918c.jpg (http://s1124.photobucket.com/user/Carl_Simonson/media/20130603_183814_zps3992918c.jpg.html)
http://i1124.photobucket.com/albums/l569/Carl_Simonson/20130603_183643_zpsc5ae494c.jpg (http://s1124.photobucket.com/user/Carl_Simonson/media/20130603_183643_zpsc5ae494c.jpg.html)

[turbotalon1g]

Nice, good luck. I hope its nothing too bad.

[JET]

I would imagine the valve bent and caused the rocker arm to fall off. Did you overrev it at all? Hopefully the piston is ok, then it would just be a valve and valve guide.

[carltalon]

I would imagine the valve bent and caused the rocker arm to fall off. Did you overrev it at all? Hopefully the piston is ok, then it would just be a valve and valve guide.

That is what I was thinking. Or when the rocker came out it held the valve open and it hit the piston. I haven't over reved it, but I did notice more lifter tick then normal the last time I drove it before this happened.

[carltalon]

I found the problem.
http://i1124.photobucket.com/albums/l569/Carl_Simonson/20130604_191731_zps99babd6b.jpg (http://s1124.photobucket.com/user/Carl_Simonson/media/20130604_191731_zps99babd6b.jpg.html)
I pulled both valves on this cylinder and the one withg out the clamp hanging out of it is bent. If anyone has some 2g intake valves for sale let me know I really want to have the car back together for proving grounds,

[93gtpeater]

How did that happen?

[carltalon]

I honistly don't know the only clamps I. Used like this are on the vaccume lines on top of the intake. And even if I did lose one I don't remember it. My only other theory is it was in the used intercooler I added this winter.

[evotuner]

That is insane