Hylift Johnson Lifters Quality Decreasing?

quality control in manufacture and idioitic dumping them loose in a box and clanking them all around before packageing them up are two different things..

all it takes is one idiot on friday afternoon shift and this is what happens

they have sat loose in a box and been rattled about or had other lifters thrown in on top.

somone in the supply chain fell at the first hurdle, there is even a bit in most manuals saying to not let lifters rattle about together in a box or tray.

given that you can get lifters with an oil hole in the face bigger than any of those dings!!!! i think these will be polished smooth within 20 minutes

id be worried about the sides not the face. In my mind a lack of rotation kills lifters and cams, hitting the same contact point repeatedly eats both up, a nice rotation gives time for the zddp to coat and protect before that exact spot is hit again..recovery time :) .

some would say i'm still an idiot but i was a bigger one in my youth
lifters had rust checmically removed and were used in the kind of "slap it togther and hope" build you do when you are 25 and skint.... no issues... looked great when i took them out better than when they went in...

but i'll agree my singular success is no idication of the right or wrong thing to do...i had nothing much invested, but time, if you do, for piece of mind, send em back... your cash your motor

Dave