It's Not All Bad...
At the Colorado River (Lake Mohave) last week. One of many free camping coves on the NV side. Although the boat motor decided to spit out a lifter and leave us stranded in middle of nowhere,...
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Executive wrote:
Isn't that thing supposed to be inside the hole...???
Supposed to be. But evidently, on that day, it was optional.:h
Camper_Jeff_&_Kelli wrote:
That's an odd one to have a lifter pop out like that. Bend a push rod, break or bend a lifter, lifter to loose, Hope you got it going again or will soon. Boats = fun for sure. Less things like this happening.
I'm guessing the valve floated due to me not lashing them like I should have. But what has me astonished, is there was no damage. I would expect at least the pushrod to be bent, beat up valve stem or rocker or worse, the pushrod finding it's way into the lifter bore, and past the cam lobe. That would have been catastrophic. Nothing. Nada. Inspected everything and reassembled. Probably will be out again this weekend.
Hey there wrote:
Reminds me of the old definition of a boat: "a hole in water ....."
Glad you caught it quickly. That's a really nice boat that you have.
It's an old one. It looks a lot better at a distance. Needs a lot of work to bring it back to it's former glory.
