Lifter is stuck???? help
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Lifter is stuck???? help
My car started making a noise that friends and I figured was a bad lifter. So I got in there and got all but one of the lifters out......the last one is very stuck. The lifter will move up and down but it gets to a certain point and just stops. My guess is that the lifter is in bad shape and has pieces blocking the removal. Are there any suggestions I am afraid to get real rough with it because of the fact that I am trying to pull a steal lifter through aluminum, and we all know which one wins that battle....They are ls7 lifters and if I can just get them out I will go with the much better lifters. Thanks and this is a 2001 Z28 with a decent size cam and ported and polished 243 heads.
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this sounds like it could end up tearing the motor down to get that lifter out of the pan....... Be VERY careful, if you dont grab that lifter when it falls out of the bore, its going to drop..
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I was thinking of maybe putting a thin piece of plastic specially cut to slide in there and catch the lifter and then slide the piece of plastic back out but not sure if that would work or not. Tommorow i will get that cam out and see what I am dealing with....thanks guys.