Buick 231 rocker arms

Hello again, I have a new problem I hope someone can help with. My rocker arms are the stamped out type and they sit on axles on the tops. The holes that the axle goes thru are about 0,1 inch bigger than the axle itself, giving a lot of "play" to the rocker arms. All the rocker arms are like this. Are they supposed to be like that or are mine worn out? Hope you guys are able to figure out what I meen despite my bad english.

 

The ID of that rocker arm has a very loose fit to the OD of the shaft going through it, at least mine did when I took it apart. Nothing really out of the ordinary to me. The new parts I bought had a loose fit as well (not quite as much, but loose none the less). The only thing really holding it in place on the shaft is the nylon button.

 

Yup, 231's are a fairly loose fit on the rocker shafts. Just how loose would require a pic. The nylon buttons are primarily to keep the rocker arms in place side to side. Mine have been fairly loose for close to 20 years with no issues. They do wear out though. Need to see a pic of how worn down the rockers are.

 

Thanks alot for all answers. I will take some pics of it one of these days and we'll see. I would think that they dont lift as high and accurate as they schould when the rocker sits so loose on the axle, but maby I'm wrong.

 

Here I have got some pictures of them, I guess they are not so bad if they are suposed to be "loose" on the axle.

 

Those are pretty loose and I can see the wear on the bottom of the rocker arms which is typical because of the upward pressure from the cam and valve springs. Personally I'd look for some replacements.

 

Ok, now new ones are purchased, or old new ones. I was looking around for parts here in norway because the vulcanos on Iceland made it difficult to order things from U.S. at that moment. I came across a guy sitting on alot of parts, almost a complete engine in all new or remanufactured parts. Here's a pic:



Among all of this there was a set (or in fact 2 sets) of Kenne-Bell rockers and alot of other goodies. The rockers seem to be out of production, anyone who has an idea on how I can get some mounting instructions for them?

 

I'm certain Warloch has them on his motor, you might contact him.

 

Hey, great! Allways help to find here at ECJ-5! If you cannot find any intructions maby you can help anyway. Right now there are 3 things I'm wondering about.
1. I have clearence issues, the rockers goes into the sides of the pedestals. When I search for Kennebell rockers I come to this page instead, and they seam to be the ones who have taken over production now.

http://www.taperformance.com/proddetail.asp?prod=TA_V1309-1.65

They mention that clearence issues may appear, did you have to grind your pedestals?
2. I see that the ones they produce now use pipe-spacers instead of the springs on my set. I'm wondering does'nt the rockers get worn when the spring pushes it against the stands all the time?
3. There are 8 shims marked "this side up" in the set. On my picture you can see I have mounted mine on each side of the springs, but I found a picture of someones set on the net and he only had shims inside of each needle-pin on the ends. Where did you put your shims, and what du you think they meen by "this side up" on a vertically mounted shim?

 

Here is what I'm talking about.



The rockers goes into the sides of the pedestals, as you can see the shaft still schould go about 1/5 inch further down before it lays in the pedestal.