need help asap
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need help asap ok here is the deal i am in the middle of doing a heads and cam swap on my 00 z28 and i was told the lifters would stay put but murphy's law says other wise so now i have 3 lifters on the in side and was wondering how in the hell do i get them out if you have any info on how to remove them please share with me thanx joel 
Drop the oil pan and get a magnet tool. Good luck. It ain't gonna be fun. The $32 worth of magnet tools per jMx's website (ls1howto.com) is worth the extra expense. Just some FYI for future reference.
There's really no quick way. You should really take your time on this and settle in for a long haul. If you rush anything you can miss/skip things and end up paying for it BIGTIME in the end. I believe you must lower the K-Member some to get access to all the oil pan bolts. Then when you get them out and remove the lifters you'll have to make sure you install the pan very carefully. You'll want to be sure it all lines up properly or you'll have an oil leak.
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ok here is the deal i have the motor mounts loose all the oil pan bolts are off we are gonna try to lift the motor up enought to pull the pan off do you think this is possible btw we also have the transmission cross member off
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Just got done doing this yesterday.... did'nt have to raise the engine.... loosened all oil pan bolts (including trans bolts) and got a pen magnent between the crank counter weights and the windage tray and pulled the lifter out...wasn't that hard just time consuming...PM me if you have any questions..
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redrumss that is the way i got them out also did not see your post till 8:30 pm so i had to find this out on my own was about to pull the motor when i saw the gap between the oil pan and motor saw there was a tray there i got verry 
then i looked at if from the frount of the pan and there they were three lifters all the way in the back of the tray boy did that make my night so now in the morring i start putting it all back togather hopefully all goes well thanx for all the help guys 
then i looked at if from the frount of the pan and there they were three lifters all the way in the back of the tray boy did that make my night so now in the morring i start putting it all back togather hopefully all goes well thanx for all the help guys 
if you were doing a heads and cam swap why didnt you move the heads first and then take out the lifters so that they wouldnt have fallen down. would of been quicker and you could of removed the cam without worry.
glad you got them out though. i used the pen magnets with my cam swap. im in the middle of a head swap as we speak.
glad you got them out though. i used the pen magnets with my cam swap. im in the middle of a head swap as we speak.
