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Old 12-31-2015, 09:09 PM   #1
crossy
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Rocker arms are crooked?? virgin 350.

I have an engine on my run stand. It is an untouched , 1984 350 engine. It runs great, and has for all of it's 68,000 miles. I removed the valve cover and noticed a severe misalignment of the rocker arm to the tip of valve stem on 3 of the 8 cylinders. I knew the old 624 heads were pretty lousy, but were they known to have push rod guide holes too small, or way off center that much. The pushrods are the only thing that i can think of that would be pushing the rocker arm sideways. using the rocker stud as the fulcrum it would be easy for the pushrod to do that ,and i do see shiny, but unworn metal on the side of the pushrod. All 3 of the rockers that are mis- aligned have their valve stem end pushed to front of engine. I'm just curious. i thought about removing the intake (to contain chips), and grinding the pushrod hole bigger on that side. thanx, Crossy
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