snap!

[Karts of Kaos]

well snap. I somehow put a valve through my cylinder head on my ungoverned 212 with a gx160 head and gx270 jet. have any of you had this happen.

 

[mckutzy]

Pics of this destruction....

And what Jet # was used with what carb??

 

[Karts of Kaos]

here are the pics

 

[Brianator]

Wow that's nuts! No I've not seen that.

 

[65ShelbyClone]

Retainer came off valve, valve fell in cylinder, piston played hammer while valve played nail.

On the blowup scale I give it 6/10 with points for difficulty and execution.

 

[Karts of Kaos]

that's exactly what happened.

 

[jmaack]

wall art

 

[65ShelbyClone]

A sacrifice to the gods of speed.

 

[Karts of Kaos]

It blew at idle

 

[BigWes]

It happens...

Seen it happen on circle track cars back in the day. It plays ugly to a 327 at wot

 

[JTSpeedDemon]

FOR THE RECORD:

Flatheads can't drop a valve like that!

 

[BigWes]

FOR THE RECORD:

Flatheads can't drop a valve like that!

Nope, but they'll never flow as effecient either because everything that goes in has to go twice as far to get in and get out and go around too many corners in the process.

No big deal until you want to turn some really high RPMs...then at some point you hit a brick wall and have to get creative and fight for each one... efficiency and money go out the window at that point...right along with your cheesy flathead comment on this post...kinda like a turd in a punch bowl actually.

---------- Post added at 01:42 PM ---------- Previous post was at 01:40 PM ----------

Retainer came off valve, valve fell in cylinder, piston played hammer while valve played nail.

On the blowup scale I give it 6/10 with points for difficulty and execution.

Lol...I like that!

The dude has a blow-up scale!

That's too funny!

 

[karl]

efficiency and money go out the window at that point...right along with your cheesy flathead comment on this post...kinda like a turd in a punch bowl actually.

At least JT's post brightened my day, I think your comment is what's floating in the punch

 

[pearl111]

? What would cause the retainer to come off of the valve?

 

[JTSpeedDemon]

Bad luck.

Especially if it's the one piece slip on retainer.

 

[pearl111]

Maybe valve lash setting was off I don't know just quessing ? (oops guessing )

 

[Brianator]

Maybe valve lash setting was off I don't know just quessing ?

How do you do that?! (quessing).

 

[pearl111]

Opps

 

[Karts of Kaos]

How do you do that?! (quessing).

I think I was missing a little valve cap thingy

the little black things

 

[JTSpeedDemon]

Wait, how the heck did it even RUN without a retainer??