Rockers

[MichiganSHO96]

Whats the best way to quiet down the rockers?

 

[RonPorter]

Get the cat's tail away from the rocker.....

Uh..no SHO, V6 or V8, has rockers.

 

[MichiganSHO96]

Always a smart ass post on these forums.. Anyways my "lifters" are loud whats the best way of quieting them down? I'm looking for the quick easy way, if there is.

Thanks

 

[SHO U UP]

You're probably hearing the injectors "tick". They all do that and its normal bud.

 

[rbruso]

Always a smart ass post on these forums.. Anyways my "lifters" are loud whats the best way of quieting them down? I'm looking for the quick easy way, if there is.

Thanks

There are no rockers. There are no lifters. The engine is a direct cam on shim/bucket on valve engine.

The arrangement is more common on motorcycle engines than on cars. Yamaha designed and built heads for both the V8 and V6 (whole engine on the V6), so they went with what they knew worked at high RPM.

This is the best picture I could find really quickly. It's a comparison of a bad cam weld (left) and one from NESHO (right) On the right cam, just above the welded section you can see the cam lobe. The round thing directly behind it is the top of the shim/bucket arrangement.

Full NESHO page on cam welding: http://www.nesho.com/camwelding.html

 

[kevinspann]

Damn rockers, keeping me up all night with their rock 'n roll music!



Don't the V8s start to tick before they spin a cam?

Hopefully your cams are welded...

 

[warmonger]

^^^yup!
btw..very nice 'bird in your sig!

 

[sandrew]

"Damn rockers!" is pretty much what I said when I took the body cladding off and saw the rust...

...wait, what?

 

[stephen newberg]

"Damn rockers!" is pretty much what I said when I took the body cladding off and saw the rust...

...wait, what?

I am in the process of dealing with just that now, this being an eastern car that has only been out in the safe and no salt west for the last 5 years. Basically the rockers on both sides need to be replaced. Or the car given up on. I thought about it for a while but there is still nothing out there that really appeals to me to go get new, and with a few thousand in new metal this one will be back ready to go for a very long time, so into late fall she will go to the body shop to get new galvanized rocker panels and all sorts of other minor body stuff like inside rims of rear wheel wells and such. A mid life face lift.

pax, smn

 

[luigisho]

I hope all these posts answered whatever it was you were asking about. :laugh_ti:

 

[RonPorter]

I hope all these posts answered whatever it was you were asking about. :laugh_ti:

Yep!!

To recap for him:

1. Probably the injectors ticking

2. If the cams aren't welded, it could be a failing camshaft sprocket, and bent valves could be one turn of the key away.

 

[Izzmo]

Yep!!

To recap for him:

1. Probably the injectors ticking

2. If the cams aren't welded, it could be a failing camshaft sprocket, and bent valves could be one turn of the key away.

Slash #2.. so that leaves 1. There's your answer.

 

[RonPorter]

Slash #2.. so that leaves 1. There's your answer.

How do you know? I think we scared him off!!

 

[wuzzzer]

Replace your spark plug wires. That'll quiet them right up.

 

[RonPorter]

Replace your spark plug wires. That'll quiet them right up.

No, that clicking is the points. Pop the distributor cap and put in a new set!! :laugh_ti:

 

[sandrew]

Could be gerbils. ANGRY gerbils.

Don't fall asleep in the car...

 

[RonPorter]

Could be gerbils. ANGRY gerbils.

Don't fall asleep in the car...

 

[Izzmo]

lol... now you guys are just going to confuse the **** out of anyone new around here.

 

[RonPorter]

lol... now you guys are just going to confuse the **** out of anyone new around here.

Ah....you are finally catching on!! :laugh_ti:

 

[SHODWN]

Sorry for the jerks in the post..

Its more than likely a bent push rod or the cam bearing has spun.. And on the supercharged editions the main pulley will nick the timing belt cover making this sound..