i'm relitively sure you remove .060 from the base of the foot pad itself... right? i just took to the machine shop and now after questions i'm second guessing it. they seemed to think removal at the bottom of the rocker is the .060 removal area. i think that could either affect the valve geomitry or the threads would be .060 further up into the hole -meaning less threaded area in the rocker. i just need confirmation before doing .060 off the pad.

by the way what kind of $ has this cost others? we talked and the machinist thought the best way to remove .060 was to use a tubular peice that is threaded to hold the swivel foot in the valve stem lathe.

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reverse that. it is the rocker arm face that gets shaved

SOOO... this area wouldn't be as precision of a grind as doing the pad. that being said, i could reasonably us a grinder (carefull not to over heat) and remove with out too much worry?

I used a flat file this weekend to take some more material off of a rocker. It doesn't even need to be flat as far as I can tell, since the adjuster will still thread into the right position, you're not moving the hole.

I used a bench grinder. Didn't take long at all. But you remove the material from the rocker arm!! not the pad.

whew! thanks guys, i almost wasted a good set of swivels

The whole idea of removing material is to allow the swivel adjuster to be screwed into the rocker arm a little farther. This allows sufficient room for adjustment. Taking anything off of the swivel foot would have destroyed it.

is it me... or do you have pictured 2 911 swivel feet, and then mazda courier adjusters in the rockers?

AA

your slipping this has been discussed already

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yes the 911 swivels represent the set i picked up. the others in question are just that -in question-. brando thinks they look like bugpack for type I. they actually are out of sir andys 2.0 bottom end stuff i bought from him. that motor was built by someone other than andy (p.o.?) and reportedly the cam went flat on andy at 1000 miles. good chance this may have run havic with the valve train geometry?

slipping? if ya bother to read the other post carefully i was asking about the mystery "swivel foot". at the time i was under the impression the foot itself was modified .060. yesterday the machine shop itself made me think it though and second guess myself. hense the recent question.
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Mike

my post was to AA not you

i said he was slipping, as in had not read every thread on the board ( like a good Admin)

i appologize, i guess i took it wrong although the my other thread wasnt the same as this question
mike