I'm confused. I removed the rocker arms and pushrods from the driver side cylinder head in my '94 Chevy S10 to take the head off, this due to lots of white smoke coming from the exhaust.
After realizing I didn't have all the tools I needed and it would take too long, I put everything back together.
Not recognizing exactly what the rocker assembly looked like before removal, I still put the pushrods, rocker arms with washer and bolt back the only way they could go.
However, I may have overtighten them. According to Alldata, the rocker arm bolt should be tightened to 20 ft lbs of torque. I only have an inch lbs torque wrench so I tightened the bolts to the equivalent 240 inch lbs (20 X
12).Each rocker arm not only made contact with the spring, but getting all the way to 20 lbs ft required the spring to be compressed quite a bit by the rocker before the torque wrench clicked. There appears to be uniformity among all the components as to how much they were compressed.
The truck won't start, but it does crank, with a "new" sound coming from the engine. Perhaps I overtightened the bolts, I thought 20 ft lbs would be 1/4 to 1/2 turn after I could no longer hand turn the bolts, but the torque wrench took forever to click. Is there possible damage as the result, especially after cranking the engine?
Sorry for the long post, regards.