[Track Junky]

Pretty trying day. I spent ours driving to four different auto parts stores and couldn't find a piston stop. Even though absolute TDC was already determined by the previous engine builder I wanted to verify this on my own. This would also give me some peace of mind when degreeing the cam. Being short on time I decided to go with what I had. I through the balancer on and verified TDC through the balancer and pre adjusted timing tab. Then I proceeded to clean my rocker arms and verify that they were not damaged when the timing chain broke. The first thing I noticed while cleaning the rocker arms was the marring on the underside. A couple severe ones and most of them with moderate marring and a few slightly marred. In addition the roller tip on #5 intake was no longer rolling, the roller shaft on #7 intake was not rolling, and there was some resistance in the rocker shaft for #3 exhaust. Figured it was time to order 3 rocker arms and called it a day.

Here are a few pics of my son degreasing and cleaning my intake and the rocker arms.