Well I figured it out finally!!!! Even after I took one of the rockers off, took it to the parts house and checked it with calipers against a new stock rocker and it checked perfect. I got fed up and got a whole new set of rockers, pivots and nuts. And behold no more hitting and it even runs better. The only thing I can figure it is the PO had put locks on the studs and for some reason it effected the way the pivots moved or something because the locks were NOT hitting the top, only the rockers scraped the side of the covers toward the intake.
Either way it's fixed now, thanks
