rebuilt 454 valvetrain noise

[johnathan]

I recently built my BB and it runs great,but it has a lot of valve noise especially under load. It's not that loud but enough to notice. It has a stock cam, comp cam pushrods, roller tip rockers. I checked around with a stethescope and I can here slight tapping at each cylinder via the headers. Is this normal? The cam was broken in properly using comp cam break in fluid 16-1800 rpm for 20 min.

 

[dyeager535]

Pushrods were/are adjusted correctly?

 

[4X4HIGH]

If the valves are adjusted properly it is not uncommon for roller tip rockers to make some valve train noise.

 

[onetonbb74]

x2 on the valve adjustment, mine was noisy when I fired it up, adjusted the valves and now its good to go with only a small exhaust leak tick I have to find still.

 

[odin]

Double check your valve adjustment.

BBCs are notorious for rounding camshafts after a rebuild.

 

[johnathan]

The valves were adjusted properly,I'll double check though.