Well, got the rockers installed finally and the car's running. Thought I'd pass along some info though, might help somebody down the road a ways.
ARP studs had ben installed, which is good, but caused some headaches when I was installing the rockers. The ARP studs must be a little too long for the use of polylocks, without using two washers as spacers between the rocker ball and the lock. One spacer won't work, gotta use two in order to be able to use the locks. Should have realized this when I took everything apart and saw that two had been used. Thought with the ball being a little taller though that I could eliminate one of the washers. Wrong. Ended up taking everything apart and using the second washer. Runs nice now, seems to pull a little harder through the gears. Idling just a bit rough, might try backing off on the adjusments just a tad and see if it smooths out. BTW, new stock length pushrods were used, 8. something inches in length, and I reused the polylocks that were in use with the stock rockers. Of course I picked the hottest week of the summer to do the changeover which didnt help matters either.
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