OEM Rocker Arm Side Play

It would appear the text in the manual and the parts in the catalog don’t agree with each other.

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Edit- After reading that a few times....... I think it’s just semantics.
A poor choice of words.....”up and down” the shaft....... is really “left or right” on the shaft.
I wonder what the thickness of the “production style” spacers is. I’ve been searching for specs but all I see is they are out of production and no results from the more well known vendor searches.