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Old 01-26-2017, 07:40 AM   #68
MikeB
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Re: American in Austria 83 Build

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Originally Posted by 44boggers View Post
Small update on the build. I finally got my pushrods from the US, Straub Technologies. I also had to get custom length rocker arms from Harland Sharp. With my Scorpion rockers I could not get proper valve train geometry (where the roller tip lays on the valve with correct pattern) I could adjust the adjustable pushrod until the patter was right, but it put rocker arm to valve geometry way off. So Harland Sharp made a .070 longer rocker for me and now it is dead on.
Just making sure you checked geometry using a solid lifter with the same overall base-to-plunger height as a pre-loaded hydraulic lifter.
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1969 C10 LWB -- owned for 34 years. 350/TH350, 3.08 posi, 1st Gen Vintage Air, AAW wiring harness, 5-lug conversion, 1985 spindles and brakes.
1982 C10 SWB -- sold
1981 C10 Silverado LWB -- sold, but wish I still had it!
1969 C10 (not the current one) that I bought in the early 1980s. Paid $1200; sold for $1500 a few years later. Just a hint at the appreciation that was coming.
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