G'day All,

The end is nigh - or so I thought. My OM617 engine rebuild rolls on at the speed of a lazy snail until it hits the next technical hitch...

I've got a new camshaft, new rockers, and new rocker spindles as the old ones were deeply scored and some of the old rockers were wedged on the old spindles good and proper.

When adjusting the valves on the back rockers - the set of four rockers on the shorter spindle over cylinders 4 and 5 - I got the impression that the spindle was curved as the cam lobe did not align nicely with the rocker.



This rocker set was a tight little bugger to fit and previously there had been some damage to the underside of the last rocker "tower".



I am now trying to source replacement towers for this back rocker set => p/n is 616 055 00 10

So my question is:-

Has anyone come across this problem before? Has anyone ever made a fix that didn't involve replacement of the slightly knackered tower?

PS:-

I've found loads of threads concerning rocker problems on petrol engines on this forum but few for the diesels...

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