Originally Posted by txhunter69
i spent the last month and a half or so building my first motor and trying to learn from trial and error and figure it out my self after a lot of frustation i finally got it to start with a little help from a freind. the valves were off and when they were adjusted they opened enough to let the three bolts a pivot ball and a rocker arm nut into my cylinders that some one had dropped into my intake wana talkj about a bad night
4 cracked cylinders 1 ccylinder missing half its wall and alot of tima and money down the drain any one had a similair experience
If it makes you feel better about 30 yrs ago (I was only 19 at the time) had a similiar experience. Had the engine done ran for 30-45 minutes got good heat in it and shut it down for the night. Came back the next morning to recheck the valves one more time. After a few minutes it started missing and popping so we shut it down and checked numerous things couldn't find anything. So we fired it back up then we found it. Someone visited us during the night and dropped a bolt down the carb, it traveled from head to head and finally bent a valve bad enough to get in the cylinder and it stopped.
We saved the crank and the cam.