indy roller rocker failure

we purchased a 426 hemi car,ran good till one day a hell of a noise,shut it down,pulled valve cover found a roller rocker broken,pin and roller came out,also noticed the intake rockers which are indy were not lined up with the valve stem,did some forget to shim these???are the stands on backwards???have no idea,need some help,here are some pics

You can't compare the Indy/Dove aluminum rockers with the Indy Chromoly Hemi rockers.

Whoever did the engine, did a piss poor assembly job from looking at the few photos. I would double check that all the stands are of the same heights, etc. The rockers definitely weren't set up correctly.

Can’t really blame the rocker for failing on that one.

Whoever put the valvetrain together wasn't paying attention. Better pull the whole engine apart and check everything.

Agreed. Thread should be titled "engine builder failure"

That is putting it very mildly

Yes I agree it needs to come out. Your rocker tip alignment is whack. MOST likely due to a pushrod rubbing problem that is common to those rockers. Instead of grinding for clearance they just moved the tip halfway off the valve. You need lash caps as well from the looks of it, again fairly common on hemi engines. From the looks of it you most likely got lucky that it did not drop a valve. Todd

Dodged a bullet, could have been much, much worse.

Who knows what else is messed up?

Tear the whole thing down and start over.

with this and all statments made prior...

There was a GTO with a fresh rebuilt 400 at the shop the other day. Owner was complaining about the engine making noise. Turns out the engine builder installed the wrong spark plugs (3/4 reach rather than 3/8 reach) and the tips of the plugs had hit the valves. The valves got dinged up, the pushrods got bent, the cam got wiped out and the whole motor needed to be torn down and rebuilt since it was full of cast iron dust. Moral of the story is that all it takes is one small thing to be wrong and an engine will start to self destruct.

has lash caps,took aprt,getting some stage v rockers and stands,redoing it all,thanx

You may be able to shim the rocker arms to correct the misalignment on them
Another reason I call them motors Hemiroids