Motor dies after startup.

^^thats sexxxy lol

so today, I pulled the valve cover to check my rods after the test drive yesterday... rod had fallen out of cylinder 2 exhaust, and one of the new rods i put in yesterday was bent slightly. not sure why the new one bent, perhaps it was not seated properly at the bottom. and doubly not sure why No. 2 came out either.

(any thoughts why this might've happened?)

when i adjusted the valves yesterday i ran the motor for 10 min, then shut it off and used the feeler gauges to make adjustments.

today i tried slant six dan's advice to do it while running (10-15 min of low to high idle warmup), it was tricky but i think it's seated better now. i also tried to get more consistency between the exhaust and intake adjustments across the cylinders by using the feeler 0.002 above 0.010 and 0.020 inch. i figured the 0.012 and 0.022 should not fit at all, while the 0.010 and 0.020 would just barely fit.

hope i did it right. took a few quick spins around the neighborhood and popped the valve cover to see if anything moved, but so far so good. gonna attempt to drive it to work tomorrow hopefully everything stays where it should be.