Roller Rocker geometry questions

Well I got some resolve today. I had few members PM me to discuss my rocker problem and I thank them. One in particular told me his story of rocker issues and was a great help. I will try to give the cliff notes version and try to get my point across. He explained at the time Edlebrock developed it's heads Crane Cams were the only ones making the roller rockers for early LA engines. So they cast the heads for the Cranes. Shortly later others started to develop rockers for the LA engines. This is the time frame when him and a friend both had a set of eddy heads. The difference, he choose to go with one of the new brand rockers. I don't remember if it was Harland or Hudges. His friend went with Crane rockers. The friends geometry lined up perfect and he had similar alignment to mine but on the other side of center, he was on the intake side. So he went into detail on how he fought to find a solution and the fix. It took him a long time, lots of phone calls and emails. To make it short he discovered that the Cranes compared to the other brands are a tad longer on the roller tip. That explained his inside geometry compared to his friend Crane rocker geometry. Digging further and deep into Edlebrock. As far up as finally getting to Vic Edlebrock. Apparently edlebrock was getting a lot of complaints that the other current rocker companies were having alignment issues. So they made the choice to change castings and move the mounting points for the rocker shaft to fix the geometry. This happen some time around the year 2000. So after getting Edlebrock to come forward with this information they offered to give him a set of the newer casting heads to fix geometry problem. This is why today a lot of people have the issue of running the Cranes on Eddy heads.

Any way I also talked it out with machinist today about it. He looked over the my alignment and told me even thow it is not ideal it's not bad and I would be fine with it. We discuss what it would take to fix the problem. Which included line honing the shaft seats to get them to sit lower. But he wasn't stressing over the alignment so I will go with it. Maybe later after I get the motor running and setup I can start to save for a new set of roller that fit right.

On another note I got a hold ARP about my short studs. It took several emails and pictures. They didn't offer any explanation for the wrong size. He even gave me the dimensions of what should have came in the kit. They are the right ones. He said I needed to use kit 144-4002 which is stated to be for the W2 heads. They are 1/2" longer on the top studs from what I have now. After all that they didn't make any effort to fix the problem. Ron F @ ARP basically told me I had to sort it out with Summit. Really? Whatever! I told him they need to change the requirements for their products so they don't confuse anymore future customers. I mean come on, my box says right on it they are for Edlebrock heads and apparently it contains the correct studs. All your going to tell me is I just need to get this other kit. Terrible service. Now I will have to fight over shipping cost with Summit over an exchange for a product that wasn't the correct one to begin with because they can't label their product right.

Rant over:finga: