HELP! Loud clanging noise!!!

[flyguy]

Okay, as some of you know im doing a head swap as posted in "compression ratio???"... I just got my engine started... and am getting a clanging noise from what appears to be the passenger side rocker arm cover... im not sure about the location though.. just a guess. It makes the noise about once ever 2 seconds or so... and sounds like metal on metal... very brief... help????

nick

 

[riffman]

GRRR!!!!!

Sorry man...i can't help...but i thought i'd post to keep this thing on top of the forum...it sounds like you really need some help!!!!

 

[flyguy]

Heh... it turns out i busted a lifter. 300 bucks later! Jeeze. if i would have know that was all the problem was... i would have done it myself. oh well.

nick

 

[Tom Wilk]

Its a good thing that's all it was. I had visions of the pistons and valves making contact, which usually ends catastrophically. It's a little expensive, but its still good news.

I also thought your engine may have had poison ivy. You'd have to amputate it.

 

[flyguy]

Haha... no not yet... Its getting hard to drive though. I lost my right leg and my left arm to poison ivy!!! The guy charged me 52 bucks for that lifter... and I have so many of them lying around the house I dont know what to do with them! hehe...

nick