Push rod clearence

mikedevore said
Has anybody had a problem with the pushrods rubbing the holes in Edelbrock heads ar max lift? I just ran into this while assem my engine. I used a Hughes solid lifter cam. I called Hughes, they said this wasn't uncommon for this to occur. They were rubbing towards the intake side. I had to pull the heads back off & have my machinist open them up. No problems now. I'm using the ductile iron rockers & 5/16 Crane pushrods. I just thought I would give everybody else a heads up. These heads are some of the earliest ones made, circa 1999.


yep since this many times on those heads, the iron heads have bigger holes and some can even support 3/8 on iron, but you should be fine and thanks for the post!