today, i tried to drive my car - the "tapping" noise ive been hearing for a while was ten times worse and my rockers sounded like a bag of marbles.
Yesterday i had the rockers off to inspect them, no issues there, bit of valve stem flattening but nothing enormously wrong - so rockers went back on and it chucked it down and in i went.
Ive had advice from the forums best and brightest.....i think i know whats wrong - so whats the new clacking and rattling with the rockers.
So back to today - i drove the little ones to the chippy in a rainstorm and im thinking oh my god the engines exploded/ing/about to explode.
Sat at the table wondering what else i could do before the engine comes out and everything goes wrong, and then it hit me............fitted the rockers back on...check......torqued the head bolts.....check.......re-set the valve clearances........er.......reset the valve clearances.............(head on table moment)
Facial expressions as follows.
<---- this last one is me playing it cool and quietly walking back out to the car to quietly set them.
and low and behold, its running fine again.
why have i shamed myself publicly in-front of miniforums elite mini demographic?
because i damn well deserve it.