Smallfry
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I was never into Fords, but didn't those engines (Kent ?) use some sort of jamming bolt with a ball on the end ?The Ford Crossflow was much the same. We grew up with a series of Mk 2 Escorts (the 1.1L, before anyone gets excited), they always sounded like a bag of knitting needles at idle.
My Mum eventually bought a Mk 3 Fiesta, the first brand new car she'd ever owned. I remarked how smooth and quiet it was, with basically the same engine.
When I came back a year or so later it had done 10,000 miles and sounded like a bag of knitting needles again
The only OHV engine I ever managed to get running quietly was the 1256 lump in a Chevette. That had individual hemispherical bearings for each rocker. I always wondered why nobody copied the idea.
The Vauxhall "sled" was a GM thing. A lot of USA GM and Ford pushrod engines used them. Worked well and stayed where they were put.