Machine some length off the threaded part of the adjuster. BeCAUSE the shoulder the follower slips up into is too deep & won't fit up over the edge of the follower. Or worded differently, the threaded part is too long.
I think machining off 2 or 3 threads should do the trick.
I'm surprised your exhaust side fit OK. Maybe I can just grind a hair off mine.
Thanks.
Hey Bill,
I need your input again.
This has kept me awake all night & I've been up since 3:00.
I realized in a "Duh! moment" shortly after I posted the above that my thinking was totally flawed.
A month ago I remembered that I was able to fit the new adjuster on the intake by removing the locknut which allowed the overall length to shorten sufficiently.
Then it dawned on me yesterday that shortening the threaded section of the adjuster still won't shorten the overall length. The adjuster will still only screw in up to the all-the-way-screwed-down locknut which I found left it too long to fit over the follower. The only way I can see now to shorten the overall length of the combined pushrod/adjuster is to machine the locknut down to 1/2 its present thickness.
OR
Pull the rocker arm, put the pushrod/adjuster in, put the rocker arm back on top of the pushrod.
OR
Grind 20 or 30 thousandths off the follower end of the adjuster (I think that's all it would take to fit). I'd be shortening the recessed part of the adjuster that the follower fits up into, but I don't think that would matter.
Help!!!