Hello,
I am during a full restauration of a buick 58, special. When I bought the car in the last year, I drove 1 week with the car to check technical parts. Engine seems to work without problems. The Engine Head gaskets are also dry and Engine was not noisy. After this I begann with the full frame off restauration. I am at the point which I want to reinstall the engine into the frame. Yesterday the last work on some minor gaskets on the engine. Then I saw a problem inside the engine. One push rod is damaged. (See attachment, the second (smaller) circle was the upper part from the lifter). I am a "hobby" worker, but I have a friend which can help with cars, but he is also not a specialist about this engine. Have someone from you experience with this engine 364cui? Can this happen sometimes or is this a indicator for a big problem?
Should we only change this push rod and the hydraulic valve lifter (I believe this is possible, I saw the parts in some shops) or make it more sense to reinstall the 2 heads and make a complete rebuild of the parts from the head (exhaust, intake, spring valve, push rods,rockerArms, hydraulic lifters). The engine is not the orginial it was a exchange, we don´t know how many miles on it.
regards
thomas
I am during a full restauration of a buick 58, special. When I bought the car in the last year, I drove 1 week with the car to check technical parts. Engine seems to work without problems. The Engine Head gaskets are also dry and Engine was not noisy. After this I begann with the full frame off restauration. I am at the point which I want to reinstall the engine into the frame. Yesterday the last work on some minor gaskets on the engine. Then I saw a problem inside the engine. One push rod is damaged. (See attachment, the second (smaller) circle was the upper part from the lifter). I am a "hobby" worker, but I have a friend which can help with cars, but he is also not a specialist about this engine. Have someone from you experience with this engine 364cui? Can this happen sometimes or is this a indicator for a big problem?
Should we only change this push rod and the hydraulic valve lifter (I believe this is possible, I saw the parts in some shops) or make it more sense to reinstall the 2 heads and make a complete rebuild of the parts from the head (exhaust, intake, spring valve, push rods,rockerArms, hydraulic lifters). The engine is not the orginial it was a exchange, we don´t know how many miles on it.
regards
thomas