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Old Jun 21, 2009 | 11:13 PM
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are they supposed to have any play what so ever like moving a bit side to side? these are the stockers and only acouple are doin this but i was thinkin this might be why my car feels like it's lost abit before the lt's came off
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by the way this is under load or not . . . i already know if i'm gonna retorque them it's gonna be at 22lbs but i just need to know how bad this is
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well i'm gonna pull my rocker arms and check my pushrods just in case i have a bent one, thankfully i have brand new 7.400 rocker arms in my room that i was waitin for the cam swap and now i don't have the cam and the new cam wont be here for acouple weeks so if any are bent i'll replace them all
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The rockers whose lifter is on the base circle will have some side to side slop, not an issue.
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The rockers whose lifter is on the base circle will have some side to side slop, not an issue.
i'm at 153K, i want to check just to make sure because it does feel like i've lost some power in the last 6 months and since i can get to the rockers right now i'd like to
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have a vid to show what i'm talkin about
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AlWwew8ABQM
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They are fine..........:d
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