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loose pushrods

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  • Start date Start date Nov 23, 2004

Soon2beBlown

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Well my rockers are very noisy so I'm thinking the roller rockers need to be re torqued. I come to find out that quite a few of the pushrods are able to be rotated by hand, obviously not tight enough. But in tightening them they just won't tighten anymore(unless I use unneccessary force) but the pushrods are still loose. I've heard adding more shims may cure the problem is this true? Currently I am only using one shim under each rocker. Basically I just need to know if adding/ taking away shims will allow me to tighten these rockers all the way?
 
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pull the pushrods out and see it the ends are worn down.my motor wears the pushrods out every few thousand miles because of a worn out motor.if you add shims then the problem would be worse.i tried replacing the rocker arms but it didn't help.
 
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