Pete,
thanks for the info, definately not an exhaust leak, motor runs awsome just has that annoting tap, truck went to the body shop today for some sheetmetal work, dam noise drove me nuts, when we get it back to the engine shop we may just tear the head off, not looking forward to do that but got to figure it out, Dam thing runs great with a ton of power, gonna take a closer look at geometry, maybe I need to make a set of pushrods up?? not sure..gonna star scrounging for another 292 head in the mean time to have a backup.. thanks again,,

craig