I have about 7000 miles on the car and for the past couple hundred miles I have had a small valve taping noise nothing serious just a light tapping sound. Not wanting to get into adjusting the valves for a little tapping sound I didn’t pull the valve covers. The other day the light tapping sound changed to a loud tap that I could hear driving down the road so I eased the car back home and today I pulled the valve covers.

One of the valve lash adjuster jam nuts had backed off and dropped onto the top of the cylinder head also two of the Allen bolts that center the rocker shaft had backed out and were laying on the cylinder head.

I must be living a charmed life because the only damage I can find is a small dent in the valve cover. From now on I will pay very close attention to valve train noise and re- torque the fasteners at least once a year

Rick