Solid roller adjustments or check intervals?
12-01-2016 | 09:17 PM
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I do it too. With the old boat the would fit in our garage we used to turn the heat on some times in the winter and when it was good and warm in there we would jump out of the hot tube run out of the house to the garage and go in the boat drink beer and crank the radio. Then go back inside to the hot tube. Drink and repeat lol
Awesome!!!
We would be fast friends lol
12-01-2016 | 09:17 PM
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[QUOTE=bigboat28;4505948]lol dude I run my boat all over every weekend, you know that lol plus weekends running around Cleveland, to Lorain, vermillion, huron, back and forth to Sandusky usually multiple times a weekend soooo pfffft! Haha
12-01-2016 | 09:19 PM
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12-01-2016 | 09:42 PM
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What makes the valve train last is mostly about putting together the right valve train combination that provides close to perfect stability. Consider finding a shop that can test your complete valve train on a SpinTron machine. Much of the valve train stability testing is done using a pair of different pushrods of various diameters and wall thicknesses (weight and stiffness). The NASCAR SBC valve trains are lasting for 500 miles at 8,000 - 10,000 RPM. Marine BBC engines running 5000-7000 RPM in an solid roller lifter application can last 75-100 hours with close to no movement in the valve train. At the end of the season, we just check & adjust the lash on a few valves. If set up right, in my experience the lash has not moved on most of the valves.....the rest .001-.003.
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12-01-2016 | 09:47 PM
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That's how a diesel lifter is one benefit is it will maintain the arc for the dynamic oil wedge to work.
Where a bushing once it gets large worn it won't have a dynamic wedge anymore.
I have bin telling my friend for years that's how it should be done. Lol.
Where a bushing once it gets large worn it won't have a dynamic wedge anymore.
I have bin telling my friend for years that's how it should be done. Lol.
12-01-2016 | 10:17 PM
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Ive seen some out on the bench during overhauls, but never reallly looked close at how they were constructed.
12-01-2016 | 11:11 PM
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900SC in it`s day was a dry sump race engine. That was not a hey let put that in a pleasure boat and go 300 hours, motor.
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