Is it possible to make your own tool to hold the lifters in place while the cam is removed? I think I have read where people use 5/16 dowels, but I can't find a good description of what they did/

 

Yes you can! Magnents, or dowels, slide dowel in, hold lifter and then remove. 1 x 5/16 drvr side, 1 3x16 wrapped in velcro pass side.

 

how do u determine a dropped lifter?

 

you slide the dowels into the block just like the jpr tool right??? What is the velcro for?

 

whats the velcro for? i thought i could use 5/16 for both and cut it to 22"

 

That is all you need. just make sure you spin the hell out of the cam and send the lifters flying and just work the dowels in on either side slowly. look.

 

so if the dowels go in all the way then it worked? is the lifters sitting on top of hte dowels?

 

No, the dowels will be in the groove on the side of the lifters near the bottom of the lifter.

 

ah, any body have a pic of a lifter. i was always under the impression that the lifter would be on top. so there is like a slot on teh lifter that the dowel fits into. is it possible to miss and have the lifter fall once the cam is out.

 

There are 2 different methods and i have tried them both here is an example of what they look like to give you a better visual. one costs 5$ dollars and one costs 55$

 

but do you have a pic of what the lifter looks like. and is it possible for the dowel to miss the lifter?

 

And yeah, you can have a lifter fall and you are looking at a weekend project just to recover the damn thing out of the bottom end of the motor. But they wont fall once you get the dowel all the way through. Just have your new cam sitting right there and most of the time the majority if not all of the lifters will stick on their own when you spin the cam over. But you have to do it fairly fast because it will throw them up further where you can slide the dowel in and it will make it to the back of the block first try.