Yes, I did speak with you the phone the other day and I tried to give you a call on Saturday when I was putting it together. The motor is back together now...I just dismissed the problem, because the old stock rocker arms fit just the same as the new ones I installed, so I thought that was just the way it was. So, by having the lifter depressed that far...what will it cause or not cause the lifter to do? This is the second rocker arm he has broken on the this engine in the last 75 hours of operation. Do you think the lifter preload caused this? Or, like we discussed on the phone about how the rocker arms were all discolored/overheated around the base had weakened the metal... The first time it happened they just replaced the bad one, not the whole set....and the new one they did install, isn't all discolored like the others, so it seems that normal operation didn't cause the overheat...it was like you said, about being that way from the factory.
Well, do you think I should take it back apart again, or run it as is?