Rockering on
Today I started to pull the cylinder heads - I am interested to see if I can unstick the engine after I motivate the pistons with a 2x4. I want to turn it through its rotations and see how good or bad the cylinders are. To get that done, I needed to pull the rocker arm assembly. Before I can do that, I had to loosen up the adjustment screws on the push rods. I think the point is to remove all tension in the rods so you don't accidentally bend one when you pull the assembly. Some of those adjustment screws hardly needed any turns to be out of the way such that the rocker was tipping back and forth. Others seemed to take forever. I would say the valve lash was not great when it was last parked. I then pulled the bolts off the assembly and the two nuts off the posts used to hold the valve cover. On one end of each assembly there is a "rocker arm shaft drain tube" which I think is supposed to redirect excess oil back to the crank case. The picture in the manual is kind of dif...