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Thanks! And which gasket :D

what RTV did you use on the header to get it to seal?

Thanks for the update. So You think it’s your rings causing the oil burning eh? And Were you taking your compression hot or cold? Thanks Dan

What about using the RTV tube styled stuff and outlining the perimeter of the intake and exhaust ports? Bad idea? Dan

Stock distributor, mattressking examined it, said it looked fine and was working. He helped with vac routing, vacuum is coming off of air cleaner right now. My massive intake leak is likely what’s causing issues. I think I’ll have better luck getting compression and rings where they need to be...

2 degrees BTDC not including 7 degrees vac advance) . I’m at 3000 feet. When I’m at elevation (5800 feet) I advance it to around 9 (not including 7 degrees vac advance)

Checking in here, i'm having similar issues. What did this end up being? Is it possible to MIGRATE the greatest minds in 2f engineering present in this thread to MY thread here? Ive been getting low compression on my engine post rebuild, some smoking, and backfiring (likely due to an intake leak...

Did the valves again, this time hot. Only 2 valves were off this time, so my prior theory that that the engine was accepting the new rocker seems to be correct, and things were wearing in. Number 12 and number 9 are still stinkers. 12 was off .004, was loose and 9 was off .003. Will take...

Will do. And, if it turns out it is indeed dished, what would have caused this? Dan

Finished wiring, everything resolved there. Redid valves after a 30 minute drive, did them hot. Almost every rocker arm had loosened, two of them stayed the same, none tightened. two of them loosened as much as .005, and one loosening a whopping .01! I had them all right so wasn’t user error. I...

awesome. I'll try this later. I just put on a new to me rocker assembly that doesn't have a crack halfway done support tower 1.... lol. ill drive it around the block then adjusts hot. I'm sure ill have to adjust again after everything "wears in" as they say. Dan

what was your compression at?? did they use the wrong rings? I was off by about 4 thousandths maximum on one reading, usually about 3 thousandths off. this was doing it cold though. might try hot measurements and valve setting next!

I already had mattressking look into it. He said valves were clanky but didn't mention a knock or anything else.

Push rods seem to match up better with the wider knob on the new assembly… I know with the 40 series there’s two sizes to the pushrods. Maybe the same here. My 60 had head work done in 05’ so maybe they mismatched the “new” rocker they put in with the existing lifters Things are Slightly more...

Yes. Been having headaches with compression and valve lash not being consistent. It’s clanky as hell. Replacing the rockers tonight with a new assembly and seeing if this helps. My old assembly had a crack in support #1 an intake leak as well that was there thanks to a bad header. 800 miles...