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Old Dec 24, 2013 | 03:50 PM
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I have read a lot of articles in the is forum on people's builds. You hear a lot about lifter and cam failures but rarely do u hear of people replacing the lifter retainers. I am taking mine apart to replace these. I fig they are plastic on a moving metal object with more stress. How may failures ar e traced to these?
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Old Dec 24, 2013 | 03:54 PM
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I have read a lot of articles in the is forum on people's builds. You hear a lot about lifter and cam failures but rarely do u hear of people replacing the lifter retainers. I am taking mine apart to replace these. I fig they are plastic on a moving metal object with more stress. How may failures ar e traced to these?
A lot of people replace them, they refer to them as "lifter trays"

Most commonly ls2 lifter trays..

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I have read a lot of articles in the is forum on people's builds. You hear a lot about lifter and cam failures but rarely do u hear of people replacing the lifter retainers. I am taking mine apart to replace these. I fig they are plastic on a moving metal object with more stress. How may failures ar e traced to these?
LS1 trays are usually replaced with the LS2 trays or guys use link bar lifters where trays aren't needed.
Very common replacement on here.

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