LS1Birdy

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I have everything taken apart, down to the step of taking out the cam, and i'm doing the step of taking a 5/16 metal dowel into the holes for the lifters, now what i have noticed is that when the dowels are in completely i can still put my pen magnet in the pushrod hole and push the lifter onto the cam, because as i turn the cam the magnet is moving...Is there something im not doing correctly or what?

seminolefamz28

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as long as you have the rods all the way to the back of the block you are good to go all you gotta do is pull out the cam

mrhzk35404

iTrader: (7)

The lifters will still move a little bit. I used the wooden rods.

snake charmer

iTrader: (118)

+1 an easy way to see it is all the way back is take a marker and lay the dowel next to the cam and mark it wher it ends . this way you can see when you put the dowel in if it has went the length of cam you are trying to swap .

droptopT/A

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yup thats what i did and i double checked with the pen magnets and the lifters still moved a bit but they wont fall aslong if the dowels are al the way in

socmguy

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you're good, pull that sucker out

LS1Birdy

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Alright thanks, that makes me feel better than...just wanted to make sure that one of those lifters wouldn't fall down

Fb0dy0nly

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I was worried too when it came time for that the first time but I realized that I didnt even need them as when I put the new pushrods in, I pushed all the lifters back onto the new camshaft, which is good but I would never pull out a cam witout them, just too risky.

Bill Bowling

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Have you got that mother changed yet?

Hope everything goods OK.

Bill