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Old 04-21-2023, 07:36 AM
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The key thing here is that whatever valves are noisy cold are quite when warm.

What I would do at this point just for ****s and giggles is with the motor cold swap the push Rods and rockers and balls from known quite valves and see what gives on start up.

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