Thread: Fresh BBC; Noisy Valvetrain

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Your gear drive is causing your valve train noise. Gear drives are great!!!!
Just kidding, I am just hoping to revive this thread a little, (I am curious to hear the opinions of others on lifter wear, and the other items in 65Caynes latest post) and the whole gear drive discussion seemed to get a lot of attention before. So, forget everything said about gear drives and let me know what you think about Caynes valve train dilema.

Thanks 65NY for dusting off the post.

FYI, I replaced all of the rockers and the new ones adjusted alot nicer and feel alot smoother than the old ones (the old ones had a lot of wear on the valve stem contact surface, they were from another set of heads).
I fired it up, overall it sounds nicer but I still have the one tick tick tick...at 1/2 rpm which I suspect is the #8 intake.

I am going to pull it apart to inspect but as I said, the one that is ticking was solid (pumped up) when I shut the motor down. I am certain that is the one because I pushed on all of the rockers and the noise muted considerably when I put my hand on that one (not an easy task btw...maybe I was pushing too hard).