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[QUOTE]Originally posted by wilit: [QB] Well, it's been a while since I've done an update because I ran into another stumbling block that needed to have some money thrown at the problem. Back in November(ish) I got my pushrods and got to work torquing down the guideplates and ran into an issue. The guideplates that came with the TF heads would not center my Magnum Pro rockers over the valve tips. I could get one of them centered, but then the other wouldn't be centered. If I split the difference, you could still tell they weren't angled correctly. Here you can see the rockers weren't perfectly centered over the tips. [IMG]http://i.imgur.com/LujBwp7.jpg[/IMG] I posted the problem here and on Corral.net and had some helpful ideas thrown at me. Most people said this was a common issue with the Magnum Pro's and TF heads and just ran them as is. I didn't like how far over the roller was sitting, so I decided to go this route. Split guideplates. Two piece guideplates that allow individual adjustment of the rockers. [IMG]http://i.imgur.com/LvGJ6g4.jpg[/IMG] These created issues of their own however. There is just enough slop in them that it makes torquing them down without moving an impossibility. So what I needed was to weld them together after getting them adjusted correctly. Only problem there was I didn't feel comfortable welding them with my Harbor Freight $99 fluxcore welder. So I had to wait till March for my bonus to pay out before buying a new 220v MIG. Tack welded [IMG]http://i.imgur.com/GRFaId5.jpg[/IMG] Here are the rockers centered up (hard to tell in this pic because of the angle, but trust me, they're centered). [IMG]http://i.imgur.com/jMnYjxu.jpg[/IMG] Here you can see the split plate on top of the factory TF plates. There's a pretty significant difference between the two. [IMG]http://i.imgur.com/ai1yLfl.jpg[/IMG] [/QB][/QUOTE]
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