Big Block ticking? Flat tappet cam. Normal?

How do you plan on handling the stripped rocker shaft hole? I honestly see no other way around it than to pull the heads and let a competent machine shop do them all so the holes will have good heli coils and all be indexed correctly. There's no way I would try it with the heads on the engine. Just my personal opinion.

He probably just put in a longer bolt for now . . .

Let's see, those are aftermarket Aluminum Heads, so those rocker shaft mount threads are going to be a lot weaker that the stock cast iron heads rocker shaft mount threads.