Summer trip to lake Powell in UT with the whole family. Out in the middle of the lake with a big block Ford engine and it starts clattering. I shut it off, and guessed it was valve train. Took off both valve covers and found one of the tangs of the pushrod guide laying in the valley near the return to the crankcase. I was able to get the pushrod out, and motor over to shore where there was a nice beach. Family decamped.
I had a tool box with me, and lucky had the blade of a hacksaw stuck in the bottom. I was eyeing my slip-joint plier as it looked like one handle of it would go under the hold down bolt and provide some support to the side of the pushrod. Well, of course, it's tool steel even though it wasn't an expensive brand. By the time I got it cut and shaped with the hammer(+3 hours) it looked pretty bad, but it fit on there, and I stole a longer bolt from somewhere else on the engine to hold it on. It lasted 3 days out on the lake until I got back and replaced the all the guides with new.
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