Rocker arm shaft seals, where can I get them? Options

[shadygrady]

I need new rocker arm shaft seals for a 1983 3.0L. Anyone know where I can get some? Thanks,

Grady

[brant]

QUOTE (Cap'n Krusty @ Nov 8 2005, 01:51 PM)

QUOTE (brant @ Nov 8 2005, 07:28 AM) At the club race last month, we broke a rocker shaft. Of course this caused a leak on the track and we noticed some oil smoke. car was running fine at the time, but we came in so as to see why there was oil dripping onto the header. I'm glad we did come in. I would have hated to see us finish the practice session, reving the car out to 7300 and having the completely loose rocker decide to move. I was glad it leaked and started thinking about this. I think I would want mine to leak as a warning that something funny was going on in there. pull your valve cover and double check your shaft isn't broken at the very least. brant You BROKE a rocker shaft? I AM amazed. It's one thing to break a cast rocker arm, but one would think the aluminum cam tower would yield brfore a hardened steel rocker shaft would break. The Cap'n

apparently it was a freak thing...
everyone we talked to at the event was surprised also.

Perhaps it was a faulty part or over torqued..?
but yep, the end snapped right where the groove is cut.
caused the entire shaft to collapse/become loose.

when we removed the valve cover the bolt and nut fell out onto the ground.

amazingly, the rocker itself was still relatively in place.