Well, thanks, I’m glad you like the thread.
It turns out I’ve got new content. On another thread I posted a pre-completion pic of my 351 Cleveland valvetrain and @EliminatorClone informed me that the tie bars were oriented on the wrong side. This is the shop where my Cougar languished for four years.
I contacted the manufacturer, Schneider Cams (Schneider Racing Cams: Performance Proven Cams & Components), who confirmed the tie bars were supposed to be on the valley side, but that if it was a problem it would have already manifested, and that it’d probably be okay. I asked if it’d affect the warranty.
Warranty is void if parts are installed wrong.
I would flip them
In a few thousand miles there’s been no noticeable problem. Now it’s at the new shop, getting worked on as per this thread’s topic.
I’ll have to take the Cougar back to the old shop and see what they want to do. Even though the manufacture won’t warranty the valvetrain, I sort of doubt they’ll cheerfully volunteer to flip the tie bars. I’m apprehensive that in the work, they’d end up making it worse, somehow. I imagine the work could be done competently by the shop it’s at now, but that’d be 6 hours of labor that neither I nor the old shop would want to pay for.
Are any of these good options? Any other options out there?
- Ask/insist that the old shop correct the tie bar orientation problem.
- Do nothing but document the problem to the old shop and have them extend their warranty.
- Have the new shop flip the tie rods and try to get the old shop to pay for it, but if need be pay for it myself.
- Do nothing and try to forget about it.