I have put a 4.25 stroke forged rotating assembly into a 30 over 454. When I received the block from the machine shop, they had painted the lifter valley with a grey graphite paint. ( they said this would aid in oil return). When I assembled the engine, I had trouble putting several of the lifters in the bores. Assuming the paint would quickly wear off shortly after initial fire up, I took no steps in cleaning the paint from t he bores. Unfortunately the engine is now complete and I have what appears to be a top end tick after 1500 RPM. In your experience, should I allow the engine to wear itself in or am I looking at a top end tear down to remove the paint from the bores?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
I have put a 4.25 stroke forged rotating assembly into a 30 over 454. When I received the block from the machine shop, they had painted the lifter valley with a grey graphite paint. ( they said this would aid in oil return). When I assembled the engine, I had trouble putting several of the… Read More »Engine tick<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1031,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"neve_meta_sidebar":"","neve_meta_container":"","neve_meta_enable_content_width":"","neve_meta_content_width":0,"neve_meta_title_alignment":"","neve_meta_author_avatar":"","neve_post_elements_order":"","neve_meta_disable_header":"","neve_meta_disable_footer":"","neve_meta_disable_title":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1,3],"tags":[70],"class_list":["post-1387","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-auto-repair-questions","category-chevy","tag-engine-building"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.freeautomechanic.com\/mechanic\/forum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1387","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.freeautomechanic.com\/mechanic\/forum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.freeautomechanic.com\/mechanic\/forum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.freeautomechanic.com\/mechanic\/forum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1031"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.freeautomechanic.com\/mechanic\/forum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1387"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.freeautomechanic.com\/mechanic\/forum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1387\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.freeautomechanic.com\/mechanic\/forum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1387"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.freeautomechanic.com\/mechanic\/forum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1387"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.freeautomechanic.com\/mechanic\/forum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1387"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}