Just a Note About New Lifters
With all the trouble mating up new lifters to new cams, have been wondering about setting up a bare short block and heads just to break in the cams?
Could find a way to pressurize the oiling system, run the cam with an electric motor to spin it. Run it without pistons so no pressure on the valve train, cam and lifters from the pressure of combustion.
Use very light valve springs on the valves to reduce strain on cam lobes.
Just easy pressure on the lifters and cam to polish the mating surfaces together, using plenty of oil pressure from an alternate source to keep things flushed clean and lubricated well.
Then when broke in well with no problems, then install the new cam and lifters in order into your new engine build.
And not having to worry about breaking in a cam, on first startup on a fresh tight engine.
Just thinking....
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With all the trouble mating up new lifters to new cams, have been wondering about setting up a bare short block and heads just to break in the cams?
Could find a way to pressurize the oiling system, run the cam with an electric motor to spin it. Run it without pistons so no pressure on the valve train, cam and lifters from the pressure of combustion.
Use very light valve springs on the valves to reduce strain on cam lobes.
Just easy pressure on the lifters and cam to polish the mating surfaces together, using plenty of oil pressure from an alternate source to keep things flushed clean and lubricated well.
Then when broke in well with no problems, then install the new cam and lifters in order into your new engine build.
And not having to worry about breaking in a cam, on first startup on a fresh tight engine.
Just thinking....
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