Just wanted to follow up on where I’m at with my car. I currently have the CHE trunnions in my stock rockers and when I pulled the valves covers they all seemed to have a decent amount of side to side movement. Also I have a loud ticking noise on cylinder one. Did an oil change today and When I cut the filter open I noticed an alarming amount of gold non-magnetic glitter, which I assume is the bronze bushings wearing at an accelerated rate. You can see it in the picture laying in the oil drain pan. It’s hard to tell but it’s a gold color. No clue why but this can’t be normal. Also inside my filter there were several larger peices of the gold colored material. Along with that, there’s quite a few pieces of silver non-magnetic material.
I have a new set of oem rockers sitting in the garage with BTR v2 trunnions in them so I’m crossing my fingers they will eliminate the gold glitter, as well as the tapping noise. No clue where the silver material is coming from, might be aluminum? Has anyone else cut their filter open and found anything similar? I know any metal at all in your oil isn’t good but how bad is this? I did recently have the heads resurfaced and valve seats touched up but this seems like something wearing too fast. This oil only has about 1200 miles on it since the work. What do you guys think?

 

Not sure the trunnions would loss chunks unless there is a clearance issue, with pieces that large you would see a rough spot or two. I would pull a few rockers and see if the bushings are damaged, CHE is used on some pretty serious builds and specifically used for heavy loads. If you had the heads surfaced and the push rod length changed where there is no preload they could beat the bushing out, but you're going the wrong way with clearance and should be tighter.

 

I know CHE is quality stuff and that’s why I’m surprised that I might have an issue with them. All I can figured is that I had an issue with the valve seats and maybe there was excessive movement in the valves causing accelerated wear on the bushings.
The heads were resurfaced but I don’t know how much was taken off them, they reused the 7.425 pushrods I already had but I put new Johnson 2110R lifters in also and now I’m actually at too much preload. I’m putting in some 7.400’s when I swap the rockers which should have me in the correct preload range.