triumphs
[Top] [All Lists]

RE: engine knock

To: "charles dubois" <duboistr3@yahoo.com>, "Triumphs" <triumphs@autox.team.net>
Subject: RE: engine knock
From: "Randall Young" <ryoung@navcomtech.com>
Date: Wed, 30 Jul 2003 13:28:18 -0700 FILETIME=[1C87F530:01C356D9]
> Also I noticed that once I put the rocker arm assembly back on,
> the distributor shaft does not go around as smoothly as it did
> when the rocker arm shaft was off.
>
> You can actually watch the rotor kind of get stuck and then there
> will be the knock and the rotor jumps forward.  I thought it had
> something to do with the way the distributor shaft was messing
> with the camshaft but this only occurs when the rocker arm
> asssembly is in place.

Wow, that's a weird one.  Which valve is opening when you hear the knock ?
Does it go away if you back off on the adjustment for that valve ?  What
about the valve that is closing ?

Randall

///  triumphs@autox.team.net mailing list
///  or try  http://www.team.net/cgi-bin/majorcool
///  Archives at http://www.team.net/archive


<Prev in Thread] Current Thread [Next in Thread>