[SEL] Spam> OT - Ford Engine Lifter

[jbcast at charter.net]

I've changed lifters on Chevy's without pulling the manifold, biggest 
problem is getting the lifter out of the hole, you have to use a small 
magnet and keep working it up and down with carb cleaner sprayed around 
it. Once removed it can be fished out of the distributor hole. Run a 
piece of tie wire down the pushrod hole and out of the distributor hole, 
tie the lifter to it by making several wraps around it and bend the wire 
to have it coming up like the pushrod. Feed it back in to the hole and 
work it in to place. A little side marker bulb soldered to wires and run 
under the manifold provides light to get a glimpse of whats going on. 
Before doing this be sure you have good oil pressure, install a manual 
gauge if necessary. It's common on Fords for the oil pump screen to 
become clogged, starving the engine for oil. Stooping lets the trash 
settle and gain pressure for a few minutes.
J.B. Castagnos


On Fri, Mar 16, 2012 at 9:16 AM, jlb94 at juno.com wrote:

> Hi Guys,
> I have an "Off Topic" question - - - In my '72 Ford engine, there is a 
> valve lifter that keeps trying to collapse.  If I stop the engine and 
> count to 10, the lifter seems to recover.  Question :::   Is it 
> possible to remove Ford lifters without taking off the head and/or 
> intake manifold and shied ?
> I am thinking of trying to insert something down through the push rod 
> hole in the head and grab the lifter and pull it out.   - - - Possible 
> ?
>
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> Joe "Pip" Betz said that. jlb94 at juno.com - - - 
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