[chopper]

I had a similar experience to Charlton. I had a set of Dove stands and rockers on my engine and they lasted less than 600 miles. The Dove FE rocker arms have no bushings or bearings; it's bare aluminum riding on the steel rails. The worst one had wear in the hole measuring almost 1/8 inch. When I tried to get hold of Dove to find out what was going on, they blew me off with their usual "nobody else is having any problems" line. I retained the Dove stands and rails because they have the end stanchions to eliminate the cantilever deflection on the outboard arms, but replaced the rocker arms with Harland Sharpe. The HS arms have bronze bushings pressed into the rockers. No further problems to date, approximately 2500 miles.