Questions tagged [push-rod]

GM continues to design and produce push rod (Over Head Valve or OHV) engines while most of their competitors have gone to over head cam (OHC) configurations for their performance engines. Is there a known reason for this? Their smaller engines…

My riding lawn mower has a Briggs & Stratton 18.5HP Intek motor (Model number: 31P777-0602-B2). The other day it began bellowing dark smoke, then sputtered and died. It would not start following. At the time, it smelled strongly of gas, and there…

I have a Toyota owner Jeep. Had a blown head gasket, most likely cause it got over heated. I removed the head and had machine shop do a valve job and had the head re-surfaced, put together, set the valves to the spec's called for, no problem till…