416 Burning oil and the road to redemption

"The overall build wasn't that bad." How sweet of you Jesse! The rocker arms tell us that some other dimensions have to be messed up. Eddy? Aluminum heads? Springs were on the shims? Where were the locators? I'm guessing you are cleaning them up to get the proud metal off of there and then you'll fix the problem.

It was only 6 rocker arms with some witness marks. I'm sure its the variance in the rocker arms themselves. Yes Eddy heads. Springs were on the shims, I am just tossing the VA-303's which are soft and replacing with VA-303HP's which are hardened. I too prefer locators but these springs are located quite well by the spring pocket in the head actually. J.Rob