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Hello to all
I own since 20 years a 2.2TII Shelby five speed with now approx 120.000 miles on it. The car runs very fine and is well serviced. But since two months I have trouble with it: after I had parked at a supermarket for two minutes and wanted to start again the machine was running only on 3 cylinders. I came back to my close home slowly and found then a follower popped out in the head and the valve stuck in the open position:
A light knock with the plastic handle from a tool let it pop up. I replaced the follower, checked the compression, all was fine, all cylinders had the same pressure. So I did a fresh oil service and got back on the road. Then 400 miles later I had the same: a short stop with a warm engine was enough to let the follower pop out while starting up. In the thread "'88 Shelby Z singing a different song..." someone mentioned a popped oft follower and said that this happens sometimes... What is to do in this case? I don't have an idea, whats to do now, since last time I drove again 200 miles, 50 of them with a speed of 100 mph
Thanks in advance to every useful hint!
I own since 20 years a 2.2TII Shelby five speed with now approx 120.000 miles on it. The car runs very fine and is well serviced. But since two months I have trouble with it: after I had parked at a supermarket for two minutes and wanted to start again the machine was running only on 3 cylinders. I came back to my close home slowly and found then a follower popped out in the head and the valve stuck in the open position:

A light knock with the plastic handle from a tool let it pop up. I replaced the follower, checked the compression, all was fine, all cylinders had the same pressure. So I did a fresh oil service and got back on the road. Then 400 miles later I had the same: a short stop with a warm engine was enough to let the follower pop out while starting up. In the thread "'88 Shelby Z singing a different song..." someone mentioned a popped oft follower and said that this happens sometimes... What is to do in this case? I don't have an idea, whats to do now, since last time I drove again 200 miles, 50 of them with a speed of 100 mph
Thanks in advance to every useful hint!

