'68 318 to carbed Magnum 5.2: Check my checklist
Apparently, each side of this engine must have been built by two different technicians with two different batches of lifters.
All the lifters on the left side of the engine (right side in this picture) has the hourglass-shaped oil hole, while the right side lifters (left in the photo) are of the flat variety:
And then I found the first really bad thing in this engine to-date:
Somehow, I've been blessed by the Goddess of Internal Combustion. The lifter bore isn't scarred at all - that lifter must have had that air pocket in it since it was cast and machined. That line down the camshaft is a reflection of light and is not damage on the cam itself:
One bad lifter. Could be a LOT worse!
-Kurt
Apparently, each side of this engine must have been built by two different technicians with two different batches of lifters.
All the lifters on the left side of the engine (right side in this picture) has the hourglass-shaped oil hole, while the right side lifters (left in the photo) are of the flat variety:
And then I found the first really bad thing in this engine to-date:
Somehow, I've been blessed by the Goddess of Internal Combustion. The lifter bore isn't scarred at all - that lifter must have had that air pocket in it since it was cast and machined. That line down the camshaft is a reflection of light and is not damage on the cam itself:
One bad lifter. Could be a LOT worse!
-Kurt