Hughes rocker arm pedestal shims

I guess I'm looking at it the wrong way. Already as much as I've backed the adjuster out of the rocker I'm hitting the rocker with the cup of the pushrod and the angle that the rocker sits at now is rocked way over on the pushrod side, if I get a shorter pushrod my rocker arm will end up rocked even deeper into the pushrod side which is definitely not the geometry she came with from the factory, so I thought the shims might keep the "teeter totter" more centered. Make any sence at all ?