Lifter failure

fair enough
being young and foolish i never even used to keep them in the same order
if one went bad i.e a none pump up hydraulic i put in a new one and got on with it
or took one out of a spare engine

so i appreciate fully where you are coming from on that front


i did everything wrong and never had an issue

i now do things right but i don't spend as much of my life building exciting stuff in the garage anymore
i'm a taxi driver for 2 teenagers instead

so the last lifter i installed was 10+ years ago

however
for every bad lifter story
how many are bad lifters?
how many are because these days when a set of springs has ftlb rating they actually stay way closer to that after use than they ever did
how many don't rotate--- how many are cams with the wrong profile to the lobe
how many are due to the aggressive nature of some modern lobe profiles

i.e more has changed and it might not be just a lack of quality lifters
it might be a change in other things we used to depend on changes that went unnoticed and the lifters are getting the blame every time

there could be more to it than meets the eye