loose adjusting nuts??
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Drifting
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From: Mt Juliet TN
loose adjusting nuts??
A few days after breaking in my cam I was trying to get my carb half way tuned when I started the car up there was a loud rattling coming from the engine. It was kind of hard to pinpoint (I had an exhaust leak too) and I feared I had wiped another cam lobe
When I took the valve cover off I saw that one adjusting nut for the rocker arm had backed itself out completly and the rocker had come completly off the pushrod. Luckily all seems OK no bent pushrods or wiped lobes
I double nutted the valve after setting lash again but thats the second one I've had to do that too. Is there anything I can use to keep these rockers on and set other then the adjusting nuts? Any advice would be appreciated I don't want to screw up another cam.
When I took the valve cover off I saw that one adjusting nut for the rocker arm had backed itself out completly and the rocker had come completly off the pushrod. Luckily all seems OK no bent pushrods or wiped lobes I double nutted the valve after setting lash again but thats the second one I've had to do that too. Is there anything I can use to keep these rockers on and set other then the adjusting nuts? Any advice would be appreciated I don't want to screw up another cam.
Le Mans Master
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From: Wildwood IL
Same thing happened to me, and I solved this problem ONCE AND FOR ALL with "cool nuts". Another brand is called "nylocks". It's a locking rocker nut that uses an allen head set screw. Available through Summit, Jegs, & Compitition Products (of Wisconson) .
Eddie
Eddie
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Drifting
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From: Mt Juliet TN
The nuts were new with the new rocker arms. I'll look for the poly locks and cool nuts ( I think I saw those in the catalog). Its good to know someone else has had this problem I thought it was just me. 
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Drifting
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From: Mt Juliet TN
Are these it?
These look right?
http://store.summitracing.com/defaul...8-16&x=14&y=14
Will they work ok with my roller tip rockers?
http://store.summitracing.com/defaul...8-16&x=14&y=14
Will they work ok with my roller tip rockers?
