Ford Y-Block Lifter Tool instructional video

So you slide in a new cam, drop the old lifters back down, button it up and immediately proceed to wipe out a cam lobe or two! Now what??!!
 
boy, I hope no one would do something like that - it needs to be restated that with any new cam a NEW SET OF LIFTERS should be used. With the method in the video, taking out the old camshaft is definitely easier but when you pull the magnet off and those lifters fall, make sure you get everyone of them out!

With the oil pan off, putting the new lifters in right side up could be tricky but I would think that magnet tool would certainly help once each lifter is placed in its boss.
 
if your going to change lifters it would be quicker to pull the engine.if i was leaving the lifters in place i would put a used cam in.ive mixed used cams and lifters all my life and never had a problem.
 
darrell said:
if your going to change lifters it would be quicker to pull the engine.if i was leaving the lifters in place i would put a used cam in.ive mixed used cams and lifters all my life and never had a problem.
Click to expand...

A 292 I rebuilt over 50 years ago cured me of mixing up lifters! Needed a cam for a friend's engine we were rebuilding on the cheap. He got a cam and lifters from a junkyard and just put the lifters in a bag. I was so proud of that job. One of my first overhauls and it did not leak a drop. Plus ran great-until a cam lobe went flat! Pulled the pan and made a gizmo from a coat hanger to snake the lifters up past the crank and rods. What a pain. Never, ever mixed up lifters again. Have never had a lobe go flat again, even when putting a used cam (with all the lifters going back on the same lobes) from one engine into another.
 
You must log in or register to reply here.
Back
Top