Rebuilt magnum 360 Noise

Braeden Clark said

Yea I've been told a few times that I should have measured. Which I now understand now that I should have. My mistake. First motor ive built. You live and you learn I guess. Will know for next time. Just at a loss as to what to do next on this motor. I guess I pull the valve covers. Just don't know exactly what I am to be measuring.

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Water under the bridge. Don't beat yourself up about it. I build a 340 when I was 20 that needed the heads replaced. I didn't realize the used up x heads had been cut and had shorter pushrods than stock installed. Built the motor up with some stock 360 heads I had. Wound up going back in to replace the push rods as it didn't have enough preload with the head and gasket combo I used. Live and learn.

If the base circle on the cam is smaller there are some cheap alternatives out there for slightly longer pushrods. I have used them with regrind cams that have the base circle reduced with success. IIRC magnumswap.com was the website that had some info and part number for them.