when I build a motor again.
Last fall, the '89 with the LeBaron motor had a stuck VLA.
I was cheap when I rebuilt it (remrmber, Frank?)
and reused the old ones in a motor with unknown miles.
Serves me right, I figured. I had little time, so I drove something else for a while, bought new adjusters, and put 'em in. No change, and the cam bearing cap over that rocker had pounded loose (!!!)

So I figure, right, dummy, must be a stuck valve. Set of junkyard heads, put in new seals, lap the exhaust valves a little, clean everything up- and do a swap one day. Get the old right head off- and there's this bit of... junk... in the oil passageway to the head. Not huge, but kind of soft... and textured. Don't think too much of it, pull the left (noisy) head- same thing, only bigger. So I clean the 'junk' in the solvent tank and it's bits of a blue paper shop towel!
It must have lodged into the passageway, and when under pressure and flow, impeded the cold flow enough to kill the lifter. I have since stopped using blue towels, and 10-40 is good enough, too!

Better to learn on things like this than motors I'm putting a lot of money into! I guess...

Toby <img src="/forums/images/graemlins/cyclops.gif" alt="" />