When doing my cam install yesterday, my lifters would not stay up. I mean they wouldn't stay up for 5 seconds by themselves, let alone hours. Why would that be? We used the pen magnets and got it done, but why the hell would my lifters not stay up at all?? This was the first time anything other than the transmission/clutch has been disconected from the motor if that makes any difference.

Thanks

 

Your lifter trays were probably just wore out. Good thing you caught this. <img border="0" title="" alt="[Smile]" src="gr_stretch.gif" />

 

Oh yeah - the car has 20K miles on it

 

The lifter holders are made of plastic. While I've not seen ones that wouldnt hold up at 20k miles, its not impossible. Now you see how fragile a process it is to just HOPE the lifters stay up, and that is why I *always* use magnets now.

 

but when you drop a lifter, just make sure you can put it back in with out removing the head. <img border="0" alt="[cheers]" title="" src="graemlins/gr_cheers.gif" /> lonslo get the credit for the lifter install

<small>[ March 17, 2003, 02:13 PM: Message edited by: rnr27band1 ]</small>