My 422 smallblock build

No offense but your pushrods are way too short. The Chrysler recommendation is the adjuster (at lash) should be out 9/32 (about .281 thou) and I think plus .050 minus .000.

That said, there is more bad news. At some point no matter what you do you will smoke adjusters. And AFAIK there are two and only two fixes.

IMO if you have the money now is the time to step up to T&D or Jesel rockers and be done.

If that’s not doable then the fix is simple to do (relatively) but it’s a beeotch to explain.

The problem is, and Chrysler has been lying about it since I figured it out in about 1994ish.

I sent them about 10 pages of documentation with detailed pictures and explanations. They said I was wrong and I told them they were stupid or liars. Or both.

The upshot is (and I’m 99.999% sure it was never fixed because I have brand new, never used W2 shafts from about 2005 and they are wrong. So the fix is the responsibility of the end user.

Anyway the upshot is Chrysler, to the very best of my knowledge that Chrysler NEVER changed the oil hole location in the shafts to match the W2 offset.

Again, to the very best of my knowledge every W2 ever produced for Chrysler has the oil holes clocked for the TA offset.

What that means is the oil hole in the shaft NEVER lines up with the hole in the rocker. At that point you are oiling the adjusters off the oil mist in the valve covers because you ain’t getting any oil out of the holes for the adjusters.

You can get by quite a bit with the oil mist in the valve covers but eventually it will bite you in the ***. HARD. That’s appears to be where you are now.

The fix is to mock up the shafts and rockers as they are exactly on the engine. You need to apply machinists bluing on the shafts. And leave the adjusters out.

Once it’s all mocked up, you take a small scribe and go through the oil hole in the rocker and mark the shaft.

Then you have to disassemble everything. Then I mount the shaft in a mill and using carbide tooling I drill the holes in the shaft where Chrysler SHOULD have put them.

At that point, you can run at least 360 months seat and 900 plus over the nose and spin it up to 8500 on a regular basis.

I know that because I have done it.

It’s a big **** sandwich. I’ll eat it again when I do the W2 engine. Unless I can sell the valve gear I have and buy T&D.
The T&D or Jesel option is out. Pretty sure those require pushrod oiling and my block is tubed so no bueno there.
Re-drilling the shafts sounds like a pain in the *** but possible I suppose. There’s gotta be another option.
I have the shafts that @Rocket sells here on the forum, not sure how the holes compare to Chrysler shafts but they do have threaded plugs in the ends. Maybe I can fabricate a spray bar setup from the threaded end.

And yes, I agree my pushrods are too short. They will be swapped out in the future.