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I made up the exhaust valves and some head gaskets today.
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I always make extra gaskets it's so easy to damage them.
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Here they are installed on the engine.
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Thanks for looking
Ray
 
These are the pieces for the rocker arm.
Yep that was a 1/2" bolt with two nuts reduced in width for the center stand.
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Arm installed and the valve timing set.
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I started with the push/pull timing gear connector attached to the large timing gear at a radius of 0.375. I had no idea just where it should be so I errored on the side of it being too much. It really was too much so I moved the pivot to 0.180. That was better but still too much. I ended up with a radius of 0.100 and that is just right.
Getting all the pieces adjusted so that each side of the rocker arm has the same lift was an adventure. I wanted a valve lift of about 0.070 but adjusting the push rod would effect both sides and if I had to move the center pivot distance that would change the push rod adjustment too. So it was a back and forth of adjust, adjust, and adjust again. When done I really tightened the center pivot bolt and I hope I don't have to ever move it again.

Thanks for looking
Ray
 

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