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Originally Posted by Bigjer
I put my car into the shop on monday at 8am. They told me it would be a 3hr job... Well I did not get my truck back til 4pm and this is what the work order said....
Tech has checked in this concern and found we were advised to check the valve clearance. remove the front valve cover and checked the #4 & #5 cyl exhaust valves and the #4 vlave exhaust spring retainer was crushed and therfore the keeper was not seated properly.. Needed to remove the valve spring and keeper and replace them. Brought back to factory specs and recheck. Completed and retested... Techline Refernce #2611195
My question is... How did I crush the retainer in 1 day? Either way it sounds fine now....
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Personally I'd view this as good news, in the sense that its unlikely that you will have a related problem... and... if you do, you can reference the early failure... which they are likely to take as a valid argument on the off-chance something in the valve train fails at some later point... or anything in the engine for that matter.
As to why it took longer? 3 hours is too little time to do that job (imo), so they did end up doing more than they expected.
The technline reference is not a TSB... maybe nothing more than a how-to.
As to what I might do (personally), make sure they put back in break-in oil, as this is what Honda advises should be there during break-in. They may not have access to it... without special order, so I'd make a point of this to them.
I'm a bit on the lazy side sometimes... but the really "right way", is to get an oil analysis done somewhere about 1k miles from now.. this will tell you if metal got put in suspension, and that they got the right oil in there. And that there is nothing else going on. Bob-the-Oil guy is a good place to read up on the value of this, and how to do it. (this is just my opinion of course)
Keep us posted... and thanks for posting your experience.