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How to get rocker arms back on correctly when theyve popped off from timing belt prob

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sphillips91

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Oct 31, 2002
My timing belt was chewed up the other day so I put a new one on. Everything went well as far as that goes. I pull the valve cover and find 8 rocker arms popped off. 3 on the intake 5 on the exhaust. 7 of them are back in but there is one last one and there isnt enough clearance to get it to go back in.

Also, the ones that popped out are loose even though I was able to get them back in by turning the crankshaft a bit. However I dont think this is the right way to do things and the head prob needs rebuilding...
 
Yeap valves are bent of course I was pretty much certain that was going to happen. I mean 99.9% of the time it does right? heh.

Im not sure what to do with this thing. Get the head rebuilt and pull all this crap off again (And then some) pay someone to do it (1300 bucks) or just sell the thing as is and hope to find someone who has the time to deal with this car because I dont anymore.
 
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