Shovelhead Intake Chipped Head Question

[Akamm47]

Do you dress the pads when they're pitted or whenever you have the rocker arms out?

Do you just use feeler gauges to check the bushing tolerances?

Also, what are your opinions on using shims for setting the end play?

Thanks again, guys.

[Dragstews]

You can remove about .025" safely from the pads before getting into soft metal ...



Plug Gauges ^^

[JBinNC]

A pitted pad on a rocker arm means the case hardened surface has been worn through and that rocker arm must be replaced.
If there is just a wear pattern, you can dress that out, leaving a regular contour on the pad.

Jim

[Davestune]

i think I have a set of rocker arms and shafts for a shovel floating around that are plug and play

[Davestune]

Ok I have I found My set, Its is for Both heads and they are with shafts
let me know if you are interested , came off raised fin mid 70's heads. roller rockers replaced them

[Davestune]

[Akamm47]

While I have the heads off, I’m going to polish the rocker boxes. While I have those Off , might as well polish the cam cover.

While I pulled that off, I noticed the timing marks on the cam, pinion, and breather gears didn’t line up. Easy fix but am wondering what are the affects when the timing marks don’t line up?

[JBinNC]

If it was running, they were lined up.

Jim

[Akamm47]

Ok il check again to see if I saw that correctly

[farmall]

Ok il check again to see if I saw that correctly

Take a pic and post. Someone else might notice something useful, related or not.

[andri]

Was the breather gear off by any chance? And if so has the breather window been made bigger than stock? Just a thought.

[Akamm47]

I think I must have mistook what I saw. Looks like they line up. What do you think?

[JBinNC]

Good as gold.

Jim

[Akamm47]

Are the stock pushrods on a 76 all the same length?

[Tattooo]

Are the stock pushrods on a 76 all the same length?

Nope..........