Rocker arm question

[seawalkersee]

I was putting the rockers back on the heads yesterday and looked at the ones I had for the 6.9. The trunions are aluminum bridges and they have about 1/8'' worn down. Flipped the rocker over and all of them have wear marks they make contact with the valve.

I had a set of 7.3 rockers that I got off of a guy that made a cummins swap. There were a few of mine that were the updated ones too. About 4 of the 7.3 ones have damage to the tip where the valve contacts.

I pulled them apart and hit the trunion with a scotch pad knocking the metal down where the rocker had been stopping with the previous cam. Since my cam is larger, the travel will be longer. I also smoothed down the valve contact area and thought there should be some sort of hole to oil the valve tip.

Anyone ever done this? Is there a problem with the way I smoothed the valve contact area down. It was less than 1/32'' so there SHOULD be enough preload in the lifter...espically since the trunions were knocked down so much on the 6.9 trunions.

Problems?

SWS

 

[seawalkersee]

26 views and no one knows? Are new rockers available?

SWS

 

[papastruck]

Don't know the answer to your original question but Rock Auto has the arms new.

 

[88beast]

penndiesel can get new rockers
the 1/32 idk sounds like thered be no issues its less than a 600k engine would wear
id say youre work is fine
but i think theres a difference in the arms iirc so id run all from one motor