Originally Posted by
jokerforever
Well got into the car a little over the weekend. I rebuilt the carb and then pulled the valve covers. I found, amazingly, no sludge, no build up, no dirt, nothing. It just looked like a clean, well taken care of old motor. That is until I found the bent push rod. I pulled it and bought a replacement. Bolted down the rockers again and bam! bent the new rod. Looks like I have a stuck valve...
I picked up a valve spring compressor at Sears on Sunday. Hopefully I can pull the spring and work the valve free without dropping it. If not, off comes the heads.
A few years ago I read an article about how to not drop a valve into a cylinder if you are not removing the head. I kind of recall getting a flimsy type of cloths line type of rope and pushing it into the spark plug hole to stop the valves from dropping when the spring is removed. Never tried it so just working on memory on something I read years ago. Good luck.