you had it all apart you should have changed that tensioner out to the LS2 style. that stock one is a POS imho.

 

i concure..it was thrown away when i did my DOD delete

 

How is it a pos? Have you broken one? Just wondering..... Im always looking for a new weekend project to keep from mowing the grass and helping the wife clean the house haha

 

Length Checker come in yet?

 

Sorry for the update but the Marine Corps has me runnin around like a lunatic for the past couple weeks. I did all my checking and everything checks out good. I havent bucked another rocker for a good 400 miles. Knock on wood! The sewing machine sound is really annoying though. Im thinking about running a thicker oil and putting my bullit race muffler back on! Lol

 

my 6.2 only had 18k on it and it was already broken.
my 5.3 short block had 45k and had many many cam swaps and it was broken too.

so what exactly did you do to fix your problem?

 

I turned the rocker arm saddles upside down which kicked my rockers in the other direction to give me a perfect wipe pattern on my valve tips. Haha. Its an insane fix which shouldnt have mattered but it worked and still is working. Just wish I could get rid of the dang sewing machine sound. Not as loud as some peoples engines on here but I am **** when it comes to any little noise.

 

what springs do you have?
im too lazy to read through again...plus im on the "mobile site"

 

Patriot 8401s. BTW the mobile site is the shiznit.

 

I'm sorry but I call BS .
I read this entire thread and you have not yet measured push rods. But yet you have done basically everything but that.
Flipping the stands! Lol
That is not the fix.