All right, I could not wait to get home to check this out. It looks like we lost the INTAKE lobe on #7. It's only moving about 1/4 inch at the most. Exhaust looks fine. I forgot the heads have screw in studs with the locking nuts. Rocker arm looks good, as well as push rod. I sure never thought the intake would give us the symptons we were experiencing.

So now the question is - do I have metal in the bearings and empregnated in the pistons or would the oil do a good job at washing it down. I remember my dad had a 283 that lost a lobe, he just put a new cam in and it ran forever.