Engine ticking!

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Me and my dad just did a head gasket replacement, we finished today and started it up and the engine is cracking and smoking. We are thinking it's the drivers side rockers so we took of the cover and tightened the rockers up. Put it all back together and it was still cracking. What's wrong?!?

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We adjusted the rockers to the correct torque and put it all back together, it is still cracking really bad! We did not check timing, any help would be greatly appreciated!!

---------- Post added at 08:51 PM ---------- Previous post was at 08:47 PM ----------

Sounds like it is coming from both sides

---------- Post added at 09:18 PM ---------- Previous post was at 08:51 PM ----------

It's also misfiring