[Chuck]

I took delivery of my T and L 302 in mid June, 2007. I was delivered on schedule and built to my specs. It has IDF carbs, which required that T and L do a bit more tuning and adjusting, since they were set up for 347 configuration engines with the Webers rather than a true 302. But all was well, or so I thought.

When we pulled the "Ford Racing" valve covers to fit the Guerney Weslake covers we noticed that a couple of the rocker arms were not centered on the valve stems. Turns out the wrong push rod guides had been used on one cylinder which had a wider opening than appropriate. The problem was obvious even to my inexperienced eye. (Not sure how that happened, since they come in sets. Indeed the offending piece was even marked differently). We contacted Lloyd and he was most helpful, promptly sending a replacement guide plate and detailed instructions on installing it.

One of the sentances in the directions noted that if one places a straightedge across the boltes securing the rocker arms they should all line up fairly close. Tried that. They don't. So that is another issue we will have to explore. I don't know how much variation would be deemed appropriate, but it looks like as much as 1/8 inch variation.

Hopefully these are only minor glitches, since the engine speced out very nice, looks good, and was otherwise delivered in a timely manner.

By the way, the spec sheet names the builder: Ros Godek. Curious as to who built your engine?

We have not yet run the engine. Hope to start it in the next week or so.

The first picture shows the mis alignment, the second taken while we were replacing the guide.