# Guideplate wear

**URL:** https://forums.speedlife.net/t/guideplate-wear/179185
**Category:** PittSpeed Automotive
**Created:** [January 1, 2006, 3:57pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/guideplate-wear/179185 "2006-01-01T15:57:45Z")
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### Author: ![Jeff95TA](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex034/user_avatar/forums.speedlife.net/jeff95ta/32/5935_2.png) [@Jeff95TA](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/Jeff95TA)
#### Post date: [January 1, 2006, 3:57pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/guideplate-wear/179185/1 "2006-01-01T15:57:45Z")

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While tearing the engine down I noticed that the guideplates have some wear from the pushrods. I’m running Pro Mag NSA with hardended pushrods and GM guideplates. Is some wear normal? A couple are pretty bad (one may be from when a rocker came loose).

I used a pushrod length checker when I installed everything and the rocker was in the correct place on the valve stem. The plates are flipped the correct way. Rolled the pushrods across glass, they don’t seem bent. I even adjusted the guideplates as much as possible to center the pushrods in the grooves. On a few of the plates the wear is on the outer most edges of the intake and exhaust sides, so adjusting wouldn’t help anyway.

Any thoughts?