that face palm moment,,,

Managed to finger out how to get the valve covers off and keep engine integrity near 100. A little aluminum foil for the ‘oil deflectors’ (cuz I’m cheap and impatient, no wanna wait for a delivery,,,) and Dio is tweakin’ valve lifters,,,

Passenger side is dead quiet from word go. No ticky-tacky nuthins,,,

Drivers side though,,,, clickityclakitytickity rackity,,,

Heres the face palm moment.

Recall, I said “I was going through the #6 side of the things and #3 exhaust was loosey-goosey,’ Yeah,,,, Guess whats noisy? You guessed right #3 Exhaust valve. #7 intake was a little loose too, but #3 was the Loud Neighbor,,, 1/2 turn and shhhhhhhhhhhhhuuuuuushhhhhhhhhhhh.

That was it. I gave #7 a little love wrenching too, but it wasn’t near as loud and obnoxious as #3 was. I can watch all the rockers moving and hear nothing but normal engine noise.

Put her all back together ( did have to pull the bolts in bracket to move it so I could get at DS Cover,,, that was it,,, didn’t need to pull the belt or fan.) and take her for test drive. Had one instance of ‘mis-fire’ and that could be any number of things (like an EGR hiccup for example) valve related, maybe, but I’m thinking its something from cleaning the intakes. Wouldn’t be the first time a cure created another issue. More investigations needed and CONSISTENT would help: this is NOT consistent.

But it was nice to drive to get DedKow for Mama, get out with the engine running and NOT HEAR that loping engine or that rickitytickityracketyclakity noise. (yes, I could hear a lope in the RPMs at idle. ) Fix that exhaust up nice now and you’d think she were a new truck by sound. And she isn’t loud at idle, only when you put your foot in it some. (or downshift for exiting the highway,,, )

Outside temp is 39 currently,,, supposed to drop into the teens overnight, but tomorrow is supposed to be even warmer (like 2 degrees but those count when they are this low.) Hopefully I have a full day at J.O.B. Has an MRI appointment with Da on Tursday, so thats gonna be an all day no pay thing,,, And then Friday. IF I can get two full, bills will be paid (both monthly recurring: phone and car insurance) this week. IF not,,, Will see. I can fudge one with putting it on a card, but thats borrowing from Peter to pay Paul.

Better that than raping Tax payers I guess,,,

Oh, Damn! I just made political commentary, didn’t I?

But I WILL get by. Thanks goes out to Mike iN FLA again,,, for dropping a tip in the jar. Thanks Brother Mike for looking out for this destitute curmudgeon. I did see that I have a couple Zon deposits coming to me too. Those aren’t much, but every little bit helps. I’ll get by,,, May be shy some skin from the squeeze, but,,,

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