Or is it not even worth the time and effort to do this. The ticking noise that I have been hearing wasn't from the lifter's themselves but it was from the hole they ride in. I had a lifter spin on me about 20k miles ago but I had the block checked and they assured me that it checked ok. Maybe i'll just buy another shortblock and be done with it.

 

I thought lifters were supposed to spin. JMHO

 

Not roller lifters.

 

Yeah it had a roller lifter spin on me... knocked some good size dents in my CC306. Not really the news I wanted to find out about yesterday... =/

 

I don't see how one could spin. Did you have lifter guides and spider installed?

 

Well the story of the spinning lifter was a freak accident. I had installed the new CC306 cam and had put all new valve train in it also... I thought I had all the valves adjusted right and took it for a test ride... got down the road and I had adjusted one too loose... well it shot the pushrod out of the rocker and bent it in half... I didn't have another Hardened pushrod and I had to be at work that night.. I thought "I'll just put this stock one back in there until I get the hardened one" well that lasted about a week. the guide was shaving the stock pushrod and the shavings where falling down the lifter hole. After enough shavings had built up it poped the plate that holds the lifter straight off. and it started spinning. That's the story of how to lose a cam in 30 days.