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Old 08-11-2020 | 06:36 PM
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Yes - says operating range is 1/4 turn to 2 turns and are factory set at 1 turn. If outside of that range you need to resize pushrods
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Old 08-12-2020 | 08:19 PM
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A friend of mine broke a few in the same spot also .. seems like those are not the hot ticket I thought they were
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Old 08-13-2020 | 03:41 PM
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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.
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Old 08-13-2020 | 06:17 PM
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I called Jesel today. $125 per rocker for the Sportsman Steel Rockers.
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Old 08-13-2020 | 07:31 PM
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I called Jesel today. $125 per rocker for the Sportsman Steel Rockers.
I think a set of 16 is about $1400. That's rough.......
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Old 08-13-2020 | 08:37 PM
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A full set including stands is $2650
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Old 08-14-2020 | 05:17 PM
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Just sucked it up and ordered the 200$ valve lash torque wrench. Going to check them all before I see out the season......
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Old 08-24-2020 | 07:19 PM
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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......


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Great picture--that is where I hope to be with the grand-kids someday
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Old 08-28-2020 | 06:33 AM
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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.
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