Well after getting my fresh exhaust on and heading home I had a bit of scare. I'm cruising along light and mild and all of a sudden the engine goes rough - real rough. I pull over about a mile from the house and popped the hood and could not find anything a miss.
So got her home and took a second look at her - Sounded like she was only firing on 7 cylinders. Checked out the wiring, plugs and ignition and all were fine. Did a compression check and found number one pushing a whopping 15lbs. Oh that made for big pit in my stomach. This is a crate gem and I do not want to pull that puppy - not now!
I pulled the valve cover and found a nice little treat that the pooh fairy left me! A rocker rolled right out of the cover and I snagged mid air. Apparently the rocker stud snapped off thus the dead hole. I'm a little concerned if there is some lose metal floating around as the rocker has a few dings/chips in it from the poly lock that danced around under the valve cover during the party. The stud looks like it broke clean into two pieces without other shrapnel and fragments.
Bolts can fail... The guys at Smeding who built the engine were super and are gonna FedEx out a new rocker, rod, stud and poly lock to whip her back into shape. Till then I just have to find other things to work on... not really fair as after almost 2 years we were just getting re-acquainted.
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