My hydralic cam has needle bearing rockers and it looks like the rocker nut is striking the sides of the rockers I have gouges on all my rockers from the nut hitting the edges of the the rockers
Whats wrong with this
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What are the cam specs??

Hmm, The experts should probablt chime in soon but maybe too much lift? Wrong length pushrods? Wrong poly locks?

you can get some stud girdle locknuts and that would solve the problem .

I hate to say this, but I have seen this a lot. The roller rockers of lower quality (usually offshore stuff) do not locate side to side. They walk back and forth and rub on the rocker. Sometimes leaving little shavings in the engine. Go out and buy a quality set. Do a search here and you will find a lot of recommendations.
Bill

well I guess I should elaborate, its a fresh 454 and running very good but i wanted it to rumble at idle ( it had a stock cam ) so I put the lunati 60203 cam in and it sounds great but....
With the bigger cam do I have to put shorter pushrods in, and if not, then its probably the rocker arms
they do look cheap they came with the engine but I didnt have a problem with them before the cam (that I know of )
thanks Michael

Push rods are already too short, geometry off.

Regards,

Milton

Push rods are already too short, geometry off.

Regards,

Milton

Milton,
How in the world do you know that ????? Certainly not from the pictures posted.

Michael,

Looks like either the wrong polylocks, which I have seen a few times, or the wrong length pushrod.

One other possibility, and it sort of looks like it looking at your first picture, is that the rocker shafts are upside down ? Its kind of hard to see, but usually the "flat" side of the shaft is up to the polylock.

It does look like they are fairly centered as far as movement goes. How about a picture without the polylock, and one from the front or back to see how the rocker tip is hitting the valve ?

Michael,you don't need roller rockers with the 60203 cam.
Waste of money. I have been drag racing and street driving the previous design of that cam for the last 7 years and get by just fine with the GM stamped rockers.Manley Severe Duty stock length pushrods as well. Nothing fancy :)

I'm telling ya, I have a set of those rockers in a box here from one of the guys I build with. They are in a box and need to go in the dumpster. They walk back and forth and is not a poly lock issue. I agree with Chris. Go with stamped OEM rockers and be done. Or buy some quality rollers.
Bill