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Old 11-17-2017, 05:49 PM
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No joy to be found in this "thing of beauty." Crazy thing is, the car still runs perfectly and no unusual noise can be detected under the hood. But I've been hearing kind of a "grinding" noise in the driver's seat at idle for some time now. Goes away off idle and the car still pulls like a freight train.

Time to rock some new rockers.
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I see the needle bearings what is the other stuff?

What lift are you running?
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Just needle bearings. Stock internals. But the car has 157k with a lot of track passes back in the day.

Trying to decided whether to look for the bad rocker and replace it, or do the full set, which in turn depends on whether I'll keep driving the car for a few more years or sell it next Spring.
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Gonna go with the bronze bushings?
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Gonna go with the bronze bushings?
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Installed a full set of the WS6store/RPMSpeed rockers.
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Hi, I would be interested in your rocker arm cores ?

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