<VV> engine noise

[Bryan Blackwell]

You might try this to help you troubleshoot - take all the plugs out 
and see if you can hear it when you spin the engine with the starter.

It sounds like you may have a stud turned in too far.

--Bryan

On Sep 11, 2006, at 9:00 PM, Lonny Clark wrote:

> Piston had been hit, but it didn't look like it was hit very hard. It 
> looked
> like the soot had been cleaned off of a small crescent where the valve
> contacted it. How hard does it have to hit to bend the rod? If the rod 
> is
> bent, can I expect low compression on that cylinder? If so, how low? 
> Can I
> tell if this is the case without taking the engine completely apart?