Lifter? I sure hope so...

[@EverydayProjects]

Hydraulic lifter stuck? Try adding a can of Seafoam to the oil and some in the gas. (Or some diesel) to free it up. Somehow, I missed this one. I was on the International Space Station trying out new sleeping bags for NASA. All I had to do all day was eat, drink, watch movies and sleep. Great Gig. I look forward to my next trip up there to test out pillows.

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It ended up being the distributor cap. As I was moving the engine around I bumped the distributor cap and it moved it just enough for the rotor to make contact with the inside of the cap. Strangely I was looking for vids of smallblock lifter noise and found a guy who had the same thing happen when he dropped the rear of his trans and the cap kind of mashed into the firewall. It was a huge relief when I wiggled the cap, it snapped into place and the engine sounded proper.

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Lucky that was all it was! That same thing happened on the Space Station during my visit. There was a knocking and we thought it was one of the mano-atomic-thrusters from the Japanese section, that would have meant a complete emergency evacuation of the station to the moon, but after a quick check, it was discovered to be just the rotor touching the distributor cap@@heliarche