Is that a Water puddle on the rocker arm? Sigh.

[DadofThree]

Oh boy

Last night I decided to re-torque the head bolts to be sure everything is still together as it should be. I rebuilt the top end of this 302 and installed new gaskets after getting off all old gasket material. We've gone through several heat cycles, so I thought it may be time. My helper and I stepped up the torques on the PS 50 ftlbs, 60 ftlbs, then 70 ftlbs. She did great, everything was tight and I didn't notice any problems.

Insert proud daddy photo here....



Here's what my PS rocker arms looked like

20180315_195549 by D. R., on Flickr


Then we went to the DS, and she got the fun task of taking off the valve cover bolts and hitting the side of the cover with the rubber mallet. (I'm

Here's what the DS rocker arms looked like

20180315_204236 by D. R., on Flickr


My heart sank just a little

I went ahead and re-torqued the head bolts on the DS to see if there were any that moved, and all seemed tight. I drained the oil, but I couldn't tell in the light of the garage if the oil was milky or had a sheen to it. I don't know what I'm really looking for with that anyway.

So now I'm not sure about:

1) Is there water in the oil
2) Is my head gasket okay (months ago I did a pressure test on the cooling system and it held pressure until one of the freeze plugs started to leak, so I was convinced that the head gasket was good. Not I'm not)
3) Do I have a crack in one of the heads?



*** Video of the rocker arms: ***


Photos from the build:
20170221_233943 by D. R., on Flickr

20170221_222110 by D. R., on Flickr

20170221_223927 by D. R., on Flickr

20170221_224301 by D. R., on Flickr