Had a Rocker Fail
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From: Portland OR
You can see in the picture where the break started and "worked" a little, then it lead to the all at once catastrophic failure. Looks like a thin area with stress risers to me. Maybe I've been through too many failure analysis courses at work though.
#38
So thought I'd just throw this out there as an update in case anyone is ever searching, but quite a few of the adjuster nuts were WAY over-torqued by my estimation. Didn't see any other noticeable signs of damage on any other rockers. I did note that almost all of the adjusters we're about 2.5 turns out but the recommended range is 1/4 - 2 turns.
Anyways, back together and back on the lift, hopefully to see out the summer...... Little guy getting some driving time in......

Anyways, back together and back on the lift, hopefully to see out the summer...... Little guy getting some driving time in......

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From: Salisbury N.C.
We Spun those same rockers 9800 in Cup Motors , But yes , we only set adjuster out max 1 Turn, or we changed pushrods , Also the lock nut is 22 FTLB .
If you ran the adjuster out 2 turns , the ****ers woudnt make it off the dyno. But we ran them 2500 miles in race engines . I forget the amount of cycles , Max Rpm 9600-9800.
and Yes we had those cool ass torque wrenches to adjust them with.
If you ran the adjuster out 2 turns , the ****ers woudnt make it off the dyno. But we ran them 2500 miles in race engines . I forget the amount of cycles , Max Rpm 9600-9800.
and Yes we had those cool ass torque wrenches to adjust them with.



