Had a similar incident on a long road trip, broke a rocker stud, pulled the rockers, pulled the push rods, and loosened the spark plug, drove like close to 300 miles to my destination. Had to buy tools, parts, and do the repair in a parking lot in the rain no less, thought it would be as easy as just changing the stud, toss the push rods & rockers back on. Nope! Darn lifters pushed out of the bores, had to yank the intake & valley pan in the rain, in a parking lot! Buy gaskets, rtv, etc, doh! Ate into my vacation money!
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