After reading this post it was never apparent early on as to why lifters wouldn't go in any Mopar. I don't think anybody was condecending. Just trying to help with what little info they had. You didn't describe what you were working on.
O.k. then. I'm not that dumb as to not know how to figure out how to put in a set of lifters. Yes, this is a fresh rebuild, 360/408 on an engine stand. And no, the roller lifters do not fit with the Eddy heads on the engine without perhaps bending or mangling the pushrod holes on the cometic head gasket. I just wanted to know if I can reuse the cometic gasket as I had already torqued the head down.