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>From Toby Erkson:
>Nope, the springs aren't the cause.
Dang! That would have been so simple...
>Need more info on the hydraulic engine.
>Did it come with a proper cam (one meant for hydraulic lifters)?
Yep. I had the engine built by Bernie Bergman out in Californy and a
proper cam was included.
>Did you adjust the valves?
Yep. I adjusted them in proper sequence with this procedure: Turn the
adjusting screw until zero lash, then 3/4 turn more.
>Was the head torqued down properly? Etc.
Yep. Followed the book 'xactly.
Sorry that the answer is so elusive. I drove the vehicle for three or
four years with Bernie Bergman's hydraulics...no problem...then cracked and replaced
a head...and zilch...nada...the big goose egg...crapola...
The hydraulic engine, after I replaced the head, would search for idle,
skipping up and down by as much as three hundred rpms. And it would backfire
thru both carbs. Very rude! Oh well, I can always grow new eyebrows...
Everything I did in replacing the head was routine to me... so I am trying
to think of the ONE rotten thing that was causing my problems...
That same head, which wouldn't work on the hydraulics, is now humming along
fine in the old engine which I installed in the car.
I want to go back in with that hydraulics engine some day, but need to figger
out what to do different before that happens.
Ideas?
Anyone?
P-l-e-a-s-e save a very confused librarian.
Thanks, Toby, and anyone else who can help unconfuse me.
Best...
Phil
dillard@suu.edu