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Old 01-11-2016, 05:18 PM
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Default Pulling heads, should I swap lifters?

Just what the title says. I'm pulling the heads to chase down a suspected coolant leak and figured since I have the heads off, should I swap the lifters? They're stock as far as I know and have about 161k on them. If I do swap, should I go with just some ls7? I was planning a build in the far future, and was planning on getting some morel 5315s for that build. Would it hurt to get those early?

I do have a tick, though I think that has more to do with a bad pickup tube o-ring than a collapsed lifter though.

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If you have the money I'd go ahead and do it since the heads will be off. I originally was going with the ls7's, but I've been hearing more stories about some failing, so I'm going with Morel's.
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Ls7s seem to be hit or miss latley. If you got the cash to spend go with the Morel's.
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I'd definitely replace them...



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