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Hold down clamp from a rocker arm
I have mentioned these several times in the past but never published one, so today when I found one while rummaging around looking for something else I decided it was time to make one again.
I started with a rocker arm from a SB gm engine, with a bur file on a die grinder I enlarged the hole to accept a 1/2" T bolt then drilled out the threads from a lug-nut to become the swivel washer
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PONTIAC designed stamped rocker arm
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metric_taper
That looks like the same rocker arm in my 1962 Pontiac 389 V8.
I will see your 389 and raise you a 400 out of my 1977 Catalina Police Enforcer....now to those folks not aware,it was PONTIAC that came up with the stamped rocker arm back in 1948,chevy heard about it and demanded to use it in the new chevy v8 in 1955...usually when a division came up with something new they got a one year exclusive use of it before the other divisions could use it..not this time both chevy and Pontiac used the new stamped rocker arm in their new OHV V8 engines introduced in 1955...Pontiac was responsible for a lot of things back then,,including the mighty 426 HEMI !!!Pontiac was dominating NASCAR 1960-1963 and the Mopar guys could not keep up, so they were asked what would it take to beat Pontiac ?? the answer was always the same "Bring back the Hemi"!!!!! and thus was born the 426 Hemi....out of the ashes of the 392 Hemi...a talented mechanical engineer by the name of John Delorean worked at Pontiac,,, when he left almost 150 patents with John Deloreans name were on those patents...including a temperature controlled fan clutch that goes between the water pump and radiator..no telling how many millions of those fan clutches have been made...if you want to read a great book about the muscle car era , its "Glory Days" by Jim Wangers,who was there when the GTO was born and is considered the Godfather of the muscle car era..