I bought the boat last June, it had sat for 4 years. Everything pretty much ran good except it had a tick. Pulled the valve cover and noticed the #3 intake rocker arm stud had started to pull out of the head. I pulled the head off, took it to my machine shop and had all new screw in studs installed on all 8 valves. Used the boat the rest of the summer with no problems.
First time out memorial weekend and cruising along at 3700rpm and the #4 exhaust rocker arm stud broke. Not sure why, possible just a bad stud (not ARP). Anyway I put in a new stud and planning on taking it back out this coming weekend.
I was talking to a buddy of mine who has a 4.3L boat and he said he carries spare studs in his because he's broke a few too.
Is this a problem with these boats? This is my first boat, baby the heck out of it on the lake. No tubes or ski's pretty much just cruise around the lake with it at the same speed etc.
I'm in the process of upgrading the rocker studs to 7/16" to prevent this from probably ever happening again. I've got the studs left over from my dirt track racing days, just need to acquire BBC rocker arms. Hard to find just 8 of them, don't need/want full set of 16.
First time out memorial weekend and cruising along at 3700rpm and the #4 exhaust rocker arm stud broke. Not sure why, possible just a bad stud (not ARP). Anyway I put in a new stud and planning on taking it back out this coming weekend.
I was talking to a buddy of mine who has a 4.3L boat and he said he carries spare studs in his because he's broke a few too.
Is this a problem with these boats? This is my first boat, baby the heck out of it on the lake. No tubes or ski's pretty much just cruise around the lake with it at the same speed etc.
I'm in the process of upgrading the rocker studs to 7/16" to prevent this from probably ever happening again. I've got the studs left over from my dirt track racing days, just need to acquire BBC rocker arms. Hard to find just 8 of them, don't need/want full set of 16.
