Dean,
Looks pretty interesting. I think your tranny failure saved you from a
dropped valve.
It will be interesting to see which part failed.
The valve stem, the small keepers or the large retainer.
Cheers, dave
On Fri, 29 Mar 2013, Dean Johnson wrote:
I put two pics on my extremely inactive blog. It looks like the very end of the
valve stem has failed. The keepers are in place but the valve can move
laterally between them. Not sure if this is due to stretching of wear, but I'm
thinking I'll need to pull the engine and then the head(s).
Here is the link to my blog post.
http://deangj.tumblr.com/post/46625405970/top-picture-shows-valve-stems-after-i-removed-the
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