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Victim of Murphy's Law... 1800

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posted by  JohnMc on  Fri Mar 28 03:57 CST 2003
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I was replacing the broken valve spring on my 1800E. Used the screw on spring compressor, thumped the retainer down. Then, as I was fishing off the two little valve stem keepers I fat fingered one and it slidd off the retainer, bounced off the block and made a hole in one into a pushrod hole. Mind you, the push rod hole still had a push rod in it so there was very little extra room, it had to be a *perfect* shot for that to happen.

After about an hour of fishing around in the hole with various magnetic contraptions I had to give up. Instead of another 10 minutes to reinstall the new spring, rocker arms and readjust the valves, etc I had to just leave everything apart until some keepers arrive at the local Volvo dealer.

*Sigh*

I'm hoping the little keeper will bounce around a little bofor falling down into the crankcase. Of course, Murphy's Law states that it will do something much more sinister in there. I guess I should pull the head to find the little bugger...






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