u/Important-Jicama7231

IN NEED OF HELP I bought a 99 tahoe with a 350 vortec. It had a bent valve exhaust #7 when I bought it. Got it home tore it down took both heads off got all new valves (lapped them) made sure everything was smooth and and sealed. I put new springs in it and reused everything else it all looked fine and no damage. The motor sat for like a month or 2 while I did the heads. I reinstalled everything today all new gaskets and such, I did valve lash tighten until no upand down movement and did 1/2 turn. Got everything else in and started it and it bent a pushrod. Got a new pushrod re did the adjustment and it bent again and after starting there lash in a couple of different valves. Is there something I'm not doing right any help would be appreciated

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u/Important-Jicama7231 — 11 days ago

IN NEED OF HELP I bought a 99 tahoe with a 350 vortec. It had a bent valve exhaust #7 when I bought it. Got it home tore it down took both heads off got all new valves (lapped them) made sure everything was smooth and and sealed. I put new springs in it and reused everything else it all looked fine and no damage. The motor sat for like a month or 2 while I did the heads. I reinstalled everything today all new gaskets and such, I did valve lash tighten until no upand down movement and did 1/2 turn. Got everything else in and started it and it bent a pushrod. Got a new pushrod re did the adjustment and it bent again and after starting there lash in a couple of different valves. Is there something I'm not doing right any help would be appreciated

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u/Important-Jicama7231 — 11 days ago

IN NEED OF HELP I bought a 99 tahoe with a 350 vortec. It had a bent valve exhaust #7 when I bought it. Got it home tore it down took both heads off got all new valves (lapped them) made sure everything was smooth and and sealed. I put new springs in it and reused everything else it all looked fine and no damage. The motor sat for like a month or 2 while I did the heads. I reinstalled everything today all new gaskets and such, I did valve lash tighten until no upand down movement and did 1/2 turn. Got everything else in and started it and it bent a pushrod. Got a new pushrod re did the adjustment and it bent again and after starting there lash in a couple of different valves. Is there something I'm not doing right any help would be appreciated

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u/Important-Jicama7231 — 11 days ago