Wish I had a dollar for every time I've seen this fix the issue on a Fox.
BBK were/are notorious for whistling. The only other brand I've tried was a PP... It was just a piece of junk. Makes a shiny ash tray.
My TB is a Summit branded piece. Automatically makes it Chinese more than likely. That means that automatically, the IAC air passages are probably full of casting flash, and sharp edges.
It's raining here today. These last two days are the first time it's rained in over two months, so while it sucks that it's raining on my day off,..it's by far the lesser of two evils. I have a garage, and the TB project (among other piddly ones), are perfect indoor time waster's.
Right now the car is up in the air again.....I needed to see about the transmission TS leak. Good thing though, because either I didn't thread the transmission bolts in all the way, or didn't tighten them, because there they were, both literally hangin by a thread. Had I not had a leak,...I'dve never put the car back up in the air until whatever happens when you don't have a trans mount happens. That could've been sooo bad.
The US Army calls the process PMCS. Preventative Maintenance Checks and Services. Clearly, I should adhere to that with regard to my bolt tightening regimen. Considering that every single bolt was off this car,...that might be a good idea for today as well.
I was telling a guy yesterday about all of the junk that I went through (of my own making) to do this engine. In hindsight, I'm amazed that it even runs. Simple stuff that everybody else takes for granted (like a replacement valve cover gasket) requires a google search. When you have a head that WAS on an engine 36 years ago,..and that head WAS only used in two countries, and neither of them are this one,....finding that gasket becomes.........a challenge.
But,...just like every other weird assed thing I've managed to do with this thing,...I persevered.
I found it. In Texas,.....( see you TX guys don't know how Australian you actually are)
For whatever reason, these guys chose to open a distributor of their stuff in TX:
http://www.aussiespeedshop.com/ it suits me just fine.
Because......
They have my valve cover gasket.
When I die,....I'm coming back as a Beaver. I'm just busy that way.
So,....I'm gonna buy that gasket, remove my valvecover, and re-lash the rockers. Now that the engine has run enough, the tips of the rockers will have left their "mark" on the tips of my valve stems. I hope that all 12 of them are tracking properly,...when the pedestals were milled off by the first machine shop they completely phcked that up. Screwing the studs in had them visibly out of line. I had to have them redrill the holes bigger (from 3/8" to 7/16") in an attempt to straighten out their mess.
I don't have to tell you that it won't necessarily take a lot of variance to have a rocker improperly open and close that valve,..but I guess only time will tell. I'm ordering the gasket today.
I'm keeping my fingers crossed