. I was told I could have dropped a lifter or maybe bent a pushrod.
Lifter?
As in "dropped it while swapping a cam" or as in "suspecting lifter is cause of car not running right" ?
If the lifter fell from it's bore you will need to have the heads pulled to fish them out, unless by some miracle they made their way into the oil pan.
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Bad30th
If the lifter fell from it's bore you will need to have the heads pulled to fish them out, unless by some miracle they made their way into the oil pan.
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Bad30th
Taking it to a dealship will set you back quite a bit. $3000 at least. Labor to pull the engine out of the car, then take the heads off, find the lifter, replace it, put the heads back on, put it back in the car. For the money you spend for that, you could have a performance shop build you quite a motor. 
sounds like a bent push rod not a dropped lifter...you can't drop a lifter only really collapse one, or hydrolock it by bending a pushrod and it overpumps with oil and won't bleed down.
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wouldn't be a good idea, could possibly do further damage, it all depends on how bad it is, could be scraping up against the head sending metal shavings throughout your engine, will pound away at the bottom of the rocker seat etc. Not advised especially until you know 100% what the problem is.
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