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Old 09-10-2011, 03:43 PM   #11
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Default Re: model A and model B lifters

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Originally Posted by Kohnke Rebabbitting View Post
We have used A lifters, on B cams, and B grinds, on A cams, for over 40 years with out distinction, and have absolutely NO problems. If yours were eaten up, I don't think you had found the real cause, as there are other things that can cause that, such as type of oil, reground cam and not rehardened, soft lifters, and a big one, debris left in the engine, such as, machine filings, This condition is not uncommon. There is a Machine Shop, that I know very well, had to redo some parts in a motor, that the Previous Rebuilder of a very few miles, used Time Saver to try to finish a bearing job that the rebuilder should have done with with a correctly ground crank, and correctly Align Bored Bearings. He had slopped this Timer saver stuff, all over the inside of the engine, and DID NOT clean it out, before he BUTTONED it up. You have to chemically clean any dirt, or at least any iron Particles, out, and off your engine parts be for assembly, and you have to use the correct type of cleaning machine. The best one that I have seen, and there may be better, is the stand up dish washer type, they use a very powerfull jet spray with their Chemical. The hot tanks with out agitation, are useless, the hot tank with Agitation is better, but I have seen nothing as good as the dish washer style. The last thing I will say, in my opinion, any thing that cuts bearing metal, cast, Brass Ect., has no place in an engine to compensate for poor machine work, or know how. Herm.
Your opinion makes sense to me! Cleanliness is next to perfection in fine engine work..I've always been indocrinated!

Also, I've been told/informed (by cam people, in answer to my Q re reground cams) that NO ONE rehardens the surface on 'reground cams'. Anyone have an opinion whether that is TRUE?

Herm...if B lifter has larger base than A..AND THAT'S GOOD..Why doesn't someone make an even larger base that the B lifter has
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