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Sal Biondo sent me some pictures of were the sportsman are park and what they have to do to get to the staging lanes.

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You could burn up a good set of 5.38's travelling that distance to the lanes....:D WJ

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And some of that expensive fuel!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

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Why didn't they build the two tracks closer together like madison, IL. they could use the pits for parking for the Nascar track. Tom

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That seems absurd, there is a thread in the '90 sect., someone said they are allowing you to tow your car up to the dirt track, then drive it from there. Depending on where you are pitted, it can be over 1.5 miles to the lanes!.

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Special, makes me wish I had ignored all the advice and put the Viper 6 speed in :) (Im JOKING !)

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Those tracks were owned by different corporations when they were built.

Greg

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That's pretty funny, Tom! I guess you don't realize that, from the starting line at Gateway back to the oval track pits and back to the starting line, it's a total trip of 2.1 miles! The roundtrip yesterday at Joliet was 2.8 miles.

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We are pitted in the gravel which is a bit farther out. It actually is much better than it sounds. or than we expected. we have to snake through a parking lot and to the main hard top, but except for a few gawkers on golf carts that block the road, you can get rolling and coast a bit.

I think the difficulty will be the congestion in the track as the crowds come in later in the week. The long drive on top of that could cause some cars fits. They are allowing people to tow from the NASCAR pits to the track, but in many cases and ours too people don't have a person with to do that anyway.

I did hear that if you had not been through tech, you had the option to bail out with no penalty, but I only know of one stocker that did that.

I would also say that the tech crew has been very attentive to this issue. They came to trailers to tech you in right away. they have been working on this as hard as anyone to make it as best as it could be.

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I was the stocker that "bailed". I race for the enjoyment and I just did not see too much "fun factor" being involved in a race where I was pitted across the street with no crew or golf cart for a tow, and then trying to be competitive against fellow racers that have that option. I understand that due to pit conditions, they were in between a "rock and a hard place" with little options for pitting. I'm just glad they gave us the option that we could transfer out.

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Considering that distance, the cars that are normally towed to the lanes should've been pitted across the street, rather than the cars that are normally required to be driven to the lanes.....it would seem most sensible, no?? But then again, making sense is pretty much never the course taken lately. Looking over entry lists, and Sportsman fields are huge out there....Great racing coming if weather/track hold up...WJ

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It might be hard to visualize how far away some people were parked. This modified Google map that I made shows the locations where Sal took his photos. It's about 1.5 miles from the speedway lots to the head of staging at Rt. 66.

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I was 1.7 miles from the back of the lanes....not much different than Madison....but it seemed a lot farther......but Red came and got us when we needed to go up...it wasn't too bad....at least when I pulled out at 10:30 pm Sunday I wasn't stuck....it was really wet in the pit area....that place would have been all torn up...it still might be bad this weekend....it didn't just rain...it poured....a number of times....I would hate to have seen the jet fuel bill....they had a tanker right there to fill all 3 jets up....incredible....

Rock

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It wasnt that bad for time runs and first round. (we broke a rocker arm first round so we didn't get to find out past that). Did they move the people that were in the late rounds inside? I can't imagine you would have time to go back and forth in the later rounds.

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We could have moved but we didn't........

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Yeah, I had the same problem first round S/C. Pulling into the tunnel started clattering and missing. Put it on the line hoping he went red or broke out, no such luck. Wouldnt have been a Jesel shaft rocker, would it? As for tornados, we had one come thru our town Saturday night, fortunately for us it went thru a block north of my parents house. Just lost a couple of trees. Other people werent so lucky,major damages.

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Jeff,

Yep it sure was a Jesel! It is the second one I have broke. They are breaking at the adjuster. I talked to them at Jesel and they said that if you don't use a torque wrench to make sure you don't over tighten them you will stretch the threads and weaken the rocker at that spot. Since I am the second owner of this motor, I am not sure how they were tightened. I just bought 16 new rocker arms so I can start over fresh. They treated me really fair on the price!

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This makes 3 for me. every time it is an intake rocker. Breaking in the adjuster area. Almost look like it breaks with the grain and all three breaks look identical. I bought these rockers used along with the heads from a guy who used to travel with us. What is the torque spec? I always just snugged the lock nut up with a normal combination wrench.

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Jeff,

After they told me my LSM adjuster tool was set at the correct torque spec, I never asked what that was. For some reason 20ft/lbs is in my head, but don't quote me on that. Mine have both broken in that same area, sort of at an angle right at the adjuster. When you look at the broken area there are two different colors of metal. One are is darker. It almost looks like they were cracked for a while before they broke. It could be that whoever had your rockers before you had over torqued them.

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LSM sells a cool adjuster tool that is a torque wrench and allen wrench....it will solve your problem....most likely

We use T&D rockers and have had the same set for several years....but have always used the torque wrench when lashing......T&D supplied it...but just look in ND for an add...from LSM

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Most likely the reason that your rocker arms are breaking could be that you are running the adjuster out too far. you should be less than 2 turns out on the adjuster.