{"id":268,"date":"2010-04-03T20:43:05","date_gmt":"2010-04-04T01:43:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.my55chevybelair.com\/?p=268"},"modified":"2010-04-04T00:34:23","modified_gmt":"2010-04-04T05:34:23","slug":"the-culprit-rears-its-ugly-head","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/my55chevybelair.com\/?p=268","title":{"rendered":"The Culprit Rears It&#8217;s Ugly Head, I Mean Arm"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>After being hit hard by a stomach virus all week, I finally felt well enough to head outside for some fresh air. Of course the yard work came first, but then\u00a0I got back into what had made my engine go Knock.<\/p>\n<p>I picked up where I left off removing the A\/C compressor, radiator, hoses and the valve cover on the side I heard the engine noise. As soon as the cover came off I spotted the problem! Definitely <em>not<\/em> what I thought or anticipated!<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-269\" title=\"Broken Rocker Arm\" src=\"http:\/\/www.my55chevybelair.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/04\/broken-rocker-arm-1-300x158.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"158\" srcset=\"http:\/\/my55chevybelair.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/04\/broken-rocker-arm-1-300x158.jpg 300w, http:\/\/my55chevybelair.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/04\/broken-rocker-arm-1.jpg 600w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Did you see it? For a closer look check this out:<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-270\" title=\"Broken Roller Rocker Arm\" src=\"http:\/\/www.my55chevybelair.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/04\/broken-rocker-arm-2-300x240.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"240\" srcset=\"http:\/\/my55chevybelair.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/04\/broken-rocker-arm-2-300x240.jpg 300w, http:\/\/my55chevybelair.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/04\/broken-rocker-arm-2.jpg 500w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>A broken rocker arm. Man do those things make some noise when they break! I only managed to find that one small piece next to it when I removed the valve cover. Not sure if the other pieces fell out or down into the block somewhere. When I pulled the push rod out and checked it, it seemed to still be straight.<\/p>\n<p>At this point, I found out what happened and now I have some decisions and more work ahead. Nothing else done today, didn&#8217;t want to over do it my first day back.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After being hit hard by a stomach virus all week, I finally felt well enough to head outside for some fresh air. Of course the yard work came first, but then\u00a0I got back into what had made my engine go&#8230;<br \/><a class=\"read-more-button\" href=\"http:\/\/my55chevybelair.com\/?p=268\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,3],"tags":[527,137,134,135,136,138],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/my55chevybelair.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/268"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/my55chevybelair.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/my55chevybelair.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/my55chevybelair.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/my55chevybelair.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=268"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"http:\/\/my55chevybelair.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/268\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":279,"href":"http:\/\/my55chevybelair.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/268\/revisions\/279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/my55chevybelair.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=268"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/my55chevybelair.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=268"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/my55chevybelair.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=268"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}