dotMorse
Club Member
Evening all. I am currently rebuilding my head after a skim and general tidy up. Did not have much history with the car so wanted to strip and rebuild to make sure everything was in order, replace gaskets etc. Seemed like a good thing to do at the time.
I started replacing the rocker arms tonight and the first is already causing a head ache. I am using the original cam shaft, rockers, springs etc all bagged and marked to make sure they go back in the right order. Set my spacing to 0.025mm on the first exhaust valve which only was the setting with the pivot bolt all the way down so no room for adjustment there. Did 2 test rotations and the marking is way off. Looks like the cam rotates initially off the pad.
Don't think I can fit lower lash pads as these already are almost flush with the spring top.
Anything stupid I am missing here?
After looking at the rocker arm it looks like this is how it was running before. Is there a new cam, spring and arm purchase on the horizon?
I started replacing the rocker arms tonight and the first is already causing a head ache. I am using the original cam shaft, rockers, springs etc all bagged and marked to make sure they go back in the right order. Set my spacing to 0.025mm on the first exhaust valve which only was the setting with the pivot bolt all the way down so no room for adjustment there. Did 2 test rotations and the marking is way off. Looks like the cam rotates initially off the pad.
Don't think I can fit lower lash pads as these already are almost flush with the spring top.
Anything stupid I am missing here?
After looking at the rocker arm it looks like this is how it was running before. Is there a new cam, spring and arm purchase on the horizon?