Thanks everyone for the replies. I got the info I needed. It will be about 3 weeks before I can tear into this project and I will update you then. Thanks again.
So here is my update. 2001 RK, carbed. Got the torrington bearings from George's Garage along with all needed tools. Got the S/E camplate, oil pump upgrade from online dealer. Right tools for the job made the whole thing a pc. of cake. Now the problem. One reason for doing this upgrade now instead of next winter as I had planned is a lifter like noise that I can not find. When I test rode the bike before purchase, I did not notice anything even tho I got it fully warmed up. The guy I bought it from knew nothing as to what was done to the bike before he got it. He had it about 2 yrs. So I get it home and proceed to check it over. Open the pushrod tubes to find adj. pushrods, so assume it may have had cams installed. Close it up and ride. Now getting ticking at full warm up, but sometimes at startup also. Thought maybe weak lifters with over 40k miles on the bike. Put in a set of "B" lifters and checked pushrods. 24 tpi. so gave them 3 turns to equal .125". Still got ticking. So now on to the camplate upgrade. Front exh. gasket showed signs of possible leakage so hoped that was it. Was not. Replaced intake seals as I had some on hand so why not. Still got tick! Should mention tick is there at cruising, but more noticeable on decel, at a guess from 3k rpm down to 2k rpm. is the worse. Also when cruising, noise really sounds like coming from front of gas tank. Back to the garage. At idle, blip the throttle and on decel really sounds like coming from front rocker box so I open that up confident I would find something. Removed rocker assy. and checked it over. Seems like everything is nice an tight. One thought here. Would a loose valve guide do this and any way to check with out pulling the head? Valve springs looked in-tacked, did not see anything obvious there. Other area of concern is the pushrods possibly hitting the tubes. Just checked some old orig. rods. They measure at .375", new ones at .437" on the main body, .540" at area of adjuster and .565 across high point of lock nut. Checked I.D. of tube. It is .705" in area of adjuster and .610" on the upper halve of the tube. As I said, noise really can be heard over front of gas tank and don't want to open up more than I have to needlessly so really looking forward to your thoughts. Sorry for the long post, just trying to cover all bases. Thanks!
