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Old 03-03-2010, 11:04 PM
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Wanna buy my Harland Sharp's? They were doing great for me when my truck was on the road lol. Now I'm just selling everything I can to fund my transmission replacement
Old 03-04-2010, 07:19 AM
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Josh, you can give me a call and I can run you through the steps on getting the right push rod length.
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I swaped my rockers from another cylinder and my compression went back up to 190 lb!!! I also checked my pushrod length ( big thanks to Tj @ baker engineering one post up) and they are perfect! I'm waiting on an email back from new era performance to see if yella terra will warrenty the rockers.... They only have about 5 k miles on them
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I would put your stock rockers back on.
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Originally Posted by dlt76028
I would put your stock rockers back on.
X2!!!!! stocker's FTW
Old 03-04-2010, 03:15 PM
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Originally Posted by dlt76028
I would put your stock rockers back on.
Cant use stock rockers with my trickflow heads. I also havnt heard of these braking before so maybe it's a one in a million thing... Has anyone else heard of these breaking?
Old 03-04-2010, 06:18 PM
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your heads must have the softer valve guides i'm guessing. there was an article not long ago about the stock rocker, high lifts, and soft valve guides in aftermarket heads not getting along.
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Originally Posted by jophuss36
Cant use stock rockers with my trickflow heads. I also havnt heard of these braking before so maybe it's a one in a million thing... Has anyone else heard of these breaking?
Actually you can. It's just "their" dirty little secret to make you spent $400 on an inferior product (there are several of these YT broken threads over on the other site). Thunder racing sells a kit to use the stock rockers with the Trickflows for around $100 if your cam has over .550" lift. If it's under that, stockers supposedly work fine.
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huh sure enough they have a shim kit out.
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Originally Posted by GMCtrk
Actually you can. It's just "their" dirty little secret to make you spent $400 on an inferior product (there are several of these YT broken threads over on the other site). Thunder racing sells a kit to use the stock rockers with the Trickflows for around $100 if your cam has over .550" lift. If it's under that, stockers supposedly work fine.
What's exactiallly in the kit? And. How would it make the valve guides last?


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