big prob!!!wt rr's
big prob!!!wt rr's ok i got my car running think i mad a vital mistake i am running guide plates with self aligning rr's is that a no no?? because it beat the aligners flat .... what do you guys recommend non aligning
Post a pic of the damaged rockers so others an learn from your mistake.
Trending Topics
LS1 Tech Stories
The Best V8 Stories One Small Block at Time
Gas Monkey Built a 6-Wheel Ferrari Testarossa With a Corvette LT4 Engine
Verdad Gallardo
7 Most Reliable High-Performance Engines GM Has Ever Built
Verdad Gallardo
Amazing '71 Camaro Restomod Is Modern Muscle Car Under the Skin
Verdad Gallardo
6 Common C5 Corvette Failures and What's Involved In Repairing Them
Pouria Savadkouei
Retro Modern Bandit Pontiac Trans AM Comes With Burt Reynolds' Autograph
Verdad Gallardo
Top 10 Greatest Cadillac V Series Performance Models Ever, Ranked
Pouria Savadkouei
Top 10 Most Powerful Chevy Trucks Ever Made!
Hennessey's New Supercharged Silverado ZR2 Has 700 HP
Verdad Gallardo
Coachbuilt N2A Anteros Is an LS2-Powered C6 Corvette In Italian Clothes
Verdad Gallardo
TECH Veteran
Joined: Dec 2008
Posts: 4,147
Likes: 62
From: Little Rock, AR
I would not use Comp guideplates. They don't seem to align all cylinders properly (could have been your problem).
Some suggestions:
GM p/n 14011051 (8 needed) check them for hardness
Trickflow Part # 30400623-8
or adjustable guideplates
Some suggestions:
GM p/n 14011051 (8 needed) check them for hardness
Trickflow Part # 30400623-8
or adjustable guideplates
now that you mention it shoebox it didnt look like they where straightbut then it is apart now cant really remember but shouldn't with nsa should it ? checked the push rods to they are ok from the looks of it i am goin to find a straight egde to check them out better...
Looks eerily similar to what one of my rockers looked like when the lifter under it grenaded itself. What springs, locks, and retainers did you use, and what was the installed height?
I'm thinking either the guideplates were sooo far off it pushed the rocker to the side, or it was the wrong spring/lock/retainer combo for those rockers and the aligning tabs ate themselves on the locks.
Just saying that even though guideplates should not be used with SA rockers, I would not imagine that much damage on that many rockers because of it. I would pull the intake and check all the lifters just to be safe.
I'm thinking either the guideplates were sooo far off it pushed the rocker to the side, or it was the wrong spring/lock/retainer combo for those rockers and the aligning tabs ate themselves on the locks.
Just saying that even though guideplates should not be used with SA rockers, I would not imagine that much damage on that many rockers because of it. I would pull the intake and check all the lifters just to be safe.
well i pulled the intake i think it might be the guide plates they don't seem to be letting the pr line up correctly man this sucks ... pulled my lifters to and checked them and they didn't compress any so i might have lifter problems too i believe i will get lifters and new rr's too and ditch the guide plates for now
I would get (I have all of these in my car except the lifters):
Trickflow guideplates - 30400623-8
Comp ProMags - 1305-16
Trickflow Chromemoly pr's - 21407xxx (for 7.xxx" length, measure for your application)
LS7 lifters (you can get them from the dealer)
Trickflow guideplates - 30400623-8
Comp ProMags - 1305-16
Trickflow Chromemoly pr's - 21407xxx (for 7.xxx" length, measure for your application)
LS7 lifters (you can get them from the dealer)
Last edited by ss.slp.ls1; Mar 30, 2009 at 12:49 PM.
