Need some quick pushrod tube info

A pair of waterpump pliers and a good twist will do it. It's not like you're going to use them again. The heads are still bolted down, right??

Pull valve covers, pull rods, take pliers and crush middle of tube with pliers and pull ouT.  Put in new ones, put rods back in, tighten down to spec, put back on valve cover and should be good to go.  I was amazed at how easy it was when I watched it happen the first time...

Yeah, the heads are bolted down and I got these adjustable ones just so I wouldn't have to mess with the heads.

Water pump pliers it is.

Thanks, Yoda.

"May da Fawce be Wit'chooz"

Gordon what 'brand' of adjustable tubes?

Are they spring loaded aluminum, Nylon, What?

I think I've read both praise and condemnation testimonials on every adjustable tube out there...and it's really confusing.

I've got a very pretty set of metallic blue and pink tubes that some Youtube guru swears, (in bold capital letters), are the worse possible pieces of s**t on the market....But they are pretty in a Mardi Gras kind of way.

Carl:

I got Deez Guys:

http://www.cbperformance.com/P...asp?ProductCode=1558

I think a wise sage on here (Our "Dear Leader? - dunno) wrote that it almost doesn't matter which tubes you use.....Eventually they will leak.  95+% of your success will be how well you install them.  

I think that, after sixteen years on my engine to only have three out of eight weep a little (never a drop on the floor) has been pretty good.  When I built it, I used the white-ish, mushy end rings with Permatex Blue and stretched the tubes over 3/8" before installing the heads.  That seems to have worked well.

I'm sure this goes without saying, but since you have the rockers off and then back on - you may want to do a valve adjustment while you're in there.  Better safe than sorry.

Ted

Thanks, Ted...

Yeah, it was due for a valve check anyway, so having to pull the rocker assys and rods was just the beginning.  

At least it's on an engine stand and I can turn it upside-down to work on it, then spin it on it's side to install the push rods and rockers more easily.

Adjustable push rod tubes are kinda hit and miss.  Sometimes they work very well and other times they don't...as in Sir Leakalot.

Gordon, I hope they work well for you.

We shall see, Ron.......we shall see.

At least they'll be easily replaceable.

Ok Gordon, I've been at work all day and just saw this! Too funny!

Also, there's a point in an engine's revolutions when all the valves on the left side are closed, making installing the rocker arm assemblies easier, and same for the other side. Let me look it up....

Found it- 90 crankshaft degrees before #3TDC for left bank. 

          ""       "          "         "     #1TDC for right bank.

Al:

In case you ever get to Rhode Island before they tow it permanently out to sea (it's a tiny state made up of many islands and one big tug boat could haul it away easily), it helps to be able to at least unnahstan the locals - there is a wholly different language going on there, especially one town south of Providence (about 5 minutes south) in Cranston (pronounced "Cvansten") or a couple more towns down in Warwick (pronounced War-ick).  

We lived in Tiverton (pronounced Tiv-ten) on the eastern border of the state, about 20 minutes from Providence - fall over to the right and you're in Massachusetts.  People there were easier to unnahstan, but you NEVER order a chocolate milk shake there at Gray's Ice Cream - you order either a Frappe (if you're from outta state) or a "Cabinet" (if you're a local).  

Plus, the official State Drink is coffee milk, made with Autocrat Coffee Syrup.

A Quick language lesson for Cah Guys:

Oohh - I just remembered a few more:

When I ride the Rhode Island Bike trail, I start in Woonsocket, which is a big mill town in northern RI, on the Blackstone river.  People there were predominantly french or french Canadian so it's pronounced Woon-sok-et (emphasis on the et).  They conjugate their sentences differently there ("Hey!  Throw me down the stairs my coat!")

Then we ride through Pawtucket - pronounced Pa-tucket - where the Red Sox have their minor league team (called the Paw-Sox) and on through East Providence, home of Brown University where everyone has a Euro-Faux-Accent and on down to Bristol.

Gray's Ice Cream (post above) has the most interesting breakfast clientele around.  They have an inside counter and sell diner food and between 4am and 7am you get fishermen, landscapers, sailors heading out t the islands and so forth.  We're in there one morning before the dump opened and this bearded guy walks in, sits down an starts chatting with the fishermen.  Turns out he stopped in at Standish Marine to get something fixed on his boat; a rebuilt Buoy Tender (Think big tug boat with a bowsprit and forward winches to grab the buoys and lift them out of the water.)  He was excited as he'd just christened his boat the "Red Head" and was headed to Nantucket.  He was Billy Joel.  The boat was named for his current girl friend (after Christy Brinkley) who was assumedly a red head, and it had an Irish Pub on the main deck.  Here's that boat:

Hah! That's awesome. Joel I think started designing yachts a few years back to keep his brain busy. 

And Tiverton! My first year as a reporter I covered Tiverton for the Providence Journal-Bulletin. Also Little Compton and sometimes Fall River. But Tiverton was where I went to council meetings. The mayor there was named Buddy (a Rhode Island thing, I guess) and owned a bar. 

Quahogs. 

Gordon- I've never been there to experience it personally, but I know some of you guys on the east coast talk kind of funny...

Geez, Ed!   I bet you know where I'm getting all of these cartoons from!  Don's beyond talented - his insight into "being a Rho-Dilander" is beyond priceless.  He actually published a Rho-Diland-Speak, illustrated dictionary that has proven invaluable when visiting Cvansten and Burrilville.  BTW:  When the ice caps are done melting and most of Rhode Island has sunken beneath the waves, Burrilville (in the hills of the Northwest Corner of the state) will be all that's left.

Buddy owned a bar for decades on Main Road in Tiverton near the RT 24 bridge (which has just been replaced and caused an uproar when they tried to institute a bridge toll of $1.00).  The bar had a Conestoga Wagon on the roof and a huge carved wooden bear out front.  He just died a year or so ago and that property has been absorbed into a huge gated community down the side of the hill to the shore of Mt. Hope Bay (between the old train bridge and the gas tanks up-bay).

Al:  Rho-Disland is famous for "Stuffies".  Take a Quahog (pronounced Cho-Hog, NOT kwah-hog - they're huge clams, about the size of your hand) and steam it, then remove the meat, chop it up, add more chopped up clam meat and some breading and "special spices", put all back into half of the Quahog shell (hence the name, "Stuffie"), bake for 15 minutes at 325F and you're done.

Some Quahogs are bigger than others, but Rho-Disland fishermen are up to the task:

Best Billy Joel quote I ever heard at Gray's:

"Ya gotta get into music because of the love of the music - ya can't expect to become a Rock Star.  My brother is the Conductor for the Vienna (Austria) Ballet - Those musicians do it because they love it, 'cuz they all know they'll never get rich.  I never expected to become a "Rock Star"....Look at me!  I don't look like a "Rock Star"!  I look like a guy who makes Pizzas!!"