Has anybody seen this happen before? Engnbldr? I don't doubt the quality of the studs at all, but I would think something serious would be wrong for it to get like this. I don't think lubrication is a problem. After reading around some more, it doesn't even sound like the alignment is a problem. All of the rockers lign up very well with the cam lobes, it's just that a few of them don't line up with the valve tips that well. IN another thread engnbldr mentioned that as long as the studs don;t walk off the valve tips then it should be fine, and there's no way mine are that far off.

Any ideas? I'd really prefer to not have to replace a stud every 2500 miles.