The valve train was not properly adjusted and were only hand tight on the passenger side, and the same on the drivers! It was never adjusted down tight enough told put enough pressure to hold the cam in place! Most often, the wear on the cam bearings should on the bottom and the wear was on the top and to the drivers side! 90% of the pushrods were worn down and had flat ends rather than round balls! The retainers were there but wore out, and you could move the pushrods back and forth, the rockers would move back and forth and would chatter! It just was not properly put together in the first place! Shame, it was a good motor too!! The extremely loose valve train was the initial ticking nose he has but, once we tore into it, realized a bigger issue! This is a better result as the motor already has 33,000 on it, plus they were drive to the track, run it for the night and drive home!!! He will definitely feel a lot better about driving to the NATS this year with a fresh motor!! Sorry for chiming in and telling your story/ Daren, just thought i would fill in the blanks. It was a good day, but the work is not over as the motor now has to come out, so hopefully by the end of the week, it will be out and torn down!!
