{FORGED?} Re: It's alive and ticking!

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On July 12, 2005 Frank Swygert wrote:

> That reminds me -- isn't there (or wasn't there) a tool that fits down into the oil hole of a lifter to catch it? Seems that I recall reading about one somewhere, but don't recall what in particular it was made for.
> 
> On June 29, 2005 Tom Jennings wrote:
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> > On Wed, 29 Jun 2005 farna@xxxxxxx wrote:
> >
> > >  Wouldn't be so bad if the head didn't have to come
> > > off the change the lifters!
> >
> > I successfully changed the lifters on my 232 years back without
> > taking the head off. The engine only had some 20K miles on it, so
> > there was no wear or crud in the top of the lifter bore to jam
> > them. I'm not sure if that happens or not though.
> >
> > The spring clip that holds the guts of the lifter into the body is
> > just visible on two sides of the dimple that the pushrod sits in.
> >
> > I made a hook out of steel wire that JUST BARELY picked the edge
> > of the spring clip. I was able to pull them out of the bores with
> > just that.
> >
> 
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My father a mechanic from the 30's had a lifter puller similar to what you described Frank. It also had a small slide hammer on it to pull the lifter if it was burred from the camshaft. It went when he sold most of his tools in the 80's.
"Doc"  











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