Frankenstein is giving me trouble...

You have to grind the pushrod holes in the heads to an fro.
Slot them the direction of interference top n bottom.
That or drill 9/16 and then only a little grinding is required. That only works if the pinch isn't really ground on.

Pull'em and grind'em.
You can kinda see what I'm describing in this pic of one of my j heads.

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