canteengreen

so xmas day there wasn't a cop insight so here i was tearing up the streets of c.a. like it was the indie 500! next thing i no i here a loud ticking noise so i drive back to my house and pull the valve cover off and right above one of the valve springs there is a nut missing. tomarow is my day off so ill take pictures and pull out my magnetic drain plug and hope the nut is stuck to it if not ill pull the oil pan. my qeustion to honda tech is should this be an easy fix or could it have messed up other componets as well? thank u for looking and sorry for the noob qeustions and bad grammer lol

canteengreen

forgot to add that its a gsr with a stock head and fully built block if that helps any

Mindgamez

Id look around inside the head. Its probably still in there. And there is no Nut above the valve spring..... If its knocking.... is what u mean by ticking than ur motor is most likely blown.

canteengreen

fixed the issue it was the nut on the cam lifter and it was stuck the the magnetic drain plug luckily, so it only took about an hour to fix thanx for trying to help!

DJYoshaBYD

wow.. you got VERY lucky... but what do you mean you took it out of the drain plug? that doesnt make sense.. there is no way to get a nut from the head to the block where the drain plug is..

If you dont mind, please explain a lil better, cause i dont see how ANYTHING from the head could have ended up in the crankcase...

canteengreen

i meant the oil pan drain plug srry i should have been more specific

DJYoshaBYD

no.. what i am saying, is i dont see how a bolt came loose in the head where you heard the noise, and then ended up in the bottom end of the motor.. did something come loose in the bottom end?

like i said.. there is NO WAY for ANYTHING, except metal shavings, to get from the head to the oil pan drain plug..

What nut did you find, where did you put it back to, and where did you find it? im just thinking about what else might be loose..

canteengreen

what a friend of mine told me is that there is holes in the head for the oil to circulate to the oil pan and that is how it ended up in there

canteengreen

if u pm me your email ill send u a pick of it

DraginTeg93

Loss Motion Assemblie in the head maybe

99gsrfasho

Can u record a video or sound clip of what the noise sounds like? I have a ticking noise as well on my motor and it remained after a valve adjustment.

DJYoshaBYD

he showed me.. its the lockdown nut for the valve lash adjuster.. he said he found it in his oil pan, which is IMPOSSIBLE.. there is NO WAY that nut could have travelled from the head to the oil pan.. im thinking that the person that built the motor may have used the oil pan as a parts tray, and left that in there upon reassembly..

canteengreen

but the strange thing is that it didnt tick befor xmas and once i fixed it, the noise went away.

EFPhilly

holy **** batman!!! Thats some crazy ****!!! If it actually traveled down there you are really lucky it didnt catch up and block oil WOW

DJYoshaBYD

again.. lol.. there is no way in the world it could have gone from there to there.. there are no passages big enough for that to pass through.. at all.. like, the crankcase is completely separated from the head, except for some VERY small oil passages.. much much smaller than that nut..

it for sure got left in there.. it didnt travel there.. but yeah.. you are hella lucky it didnt get caught up in the rotating assembly

canteengreen

but this has been my 4th oil change. the nut was stuck to it and all the other times it wasnt so it had to of just came off on xmas. plus it was a very loud noise and i would of heard it befor and it deffanitly stopped once i put it back on!

DJYoshaBYD

well, im not saying that the valve adjuster wasnt loose... that nut doesnt adjust the lash, it holds down the adjuster itself..

you know when you screwed it back on? the stud that you put it on to? that had a slot for a flathead screwdriver in the top.. THAT thing spins, as well.. im thinking that the nut was never on there, and the that adjust finally just rattled loose..

yes.. the nut you pulled out of the oil pan IS the nut for the valve adjuster.. but again.. there is no way it could have traveled.. thats like saying it someone can walk through a wall.. lol...

By the way, i would take your valve cover back off, and check your valve lash on all valves, and make sure they are all tight.. i mean, whoever built the motor left a nut in the oil pan, didnt even bother to put a nut on the valve lash adjuster, and who knows what else.. i would start checking stuff, just to be on the safe side.. call me paranoid..

canteengreen

ya thats true but how much play should they have because some were looser than othere's are, i mean all the nuts were tight but the thing they sit on were loos on some of them and wat i mean by that is u could move them up and down?

DJYoshaBYD

well, you need to adjust your valve lash with feeler gauges.. you have to kinda rotate the motor to take load off the valve tappers, then adjust the lash WHILE THE ENGINE IS DEAD ICE COLD..

Bust out the service manual to do this.. its not hard...

canteengreen

alright will do thanks for everything bro

DJYoshaBYD

no prob.. take care of your car, and it will give you VTEC handjobs for a long time.. haha

canteengreen

lmao

DJYoshaBYD

haha.. i forgot i wrote that.. that is kinda funny.. lol