Try this:
http://www.pushrods.net/
Charly Mitchel
TR6 #44
----- Original Message -----
From: <toodamnfunky@comcast.net>
To: "fot" <fot@autox.team.net>
Sent: Wednesday, May 04, 2011 7:10 AM
Subject: [Fot] Shimming the rocker pedestals ?
> FoT
>
> I just built a fresh motor with a different block and discovered my
> pushrods
> are too long.
>
> I had new ( big ) valves put in and started with a prepared from stock
> block.
>
> .008 was taken off the block and I canbt remember how much off the head
> to
> give me 12.5:1 comp ratio. I would guess the head was shaved over .120b .
>
> Anyway, while doing the final assembly and prepping to run it in, my
> adjusters
> are run out all the way to max. There is a full 3/16b of thread
> projecting
> from the adjustment screw. I got cylinders 1& 2 to adjust to .22/.24 lash
> but
> when I got to # 3
>
> that's where the adjuster had no effect, that was my first clue.
>
> Our first race of the season is on the 13 th so I need to find a solution
> in
> the next few days. One thing I have always wondered about is why couldnbt
> the pedestals just be raised to compensate instead of shortening all the
> pushrods.
>
> Thanks again for input,
>
>
>
> B
>
> Jim G.
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