Reusing 195k lifters?

Mojoe9955 said
I'm doing a 5.2 motor. It is a 2000 and has 195k on it and ran quite good in my Ram van that unfortunately had frame rusted beyond repair. The block shows no wear...no ridge and still has visible cross hatching. The heads and exhaust manifolds were rusted to $hit on the outside, with busted exhaust studs and sparkplug tubes, but didn't look too bad on the inside. I scrapped them and found some bare EQ heads, the NZ castings for LA intakes.
I'm replacing the the bearings, rings, and having Oregon regrind my cam. I have a Hughes spring kit on order and harvested the old valves with plans for a 3 angle valve job and a little port work. Aside from that I'm using the stock valve train, including the lifters which look good for having 195k on them. Of course they'll get a good cleaning.
I want keep the budget on the low side and $200 for new lifters can go to other parts I need if I can reuse them.
Thanks

Mojoe9955 said
Thanks, I kinda knew the answer, but was just double checking. Now I don't have to screw around cleaning them. If the heads are "decked" and using a thinner head gasket to raise compression some, are longer push rod in play too?
Thanks

If the rollers are clean and smooth and you know the engine ran well with no lifter noise I would not hesitate to reuse the factory lifters on a build like that.

I would not reuse the factory valves in those heads. If they are the good NZ castings find some good valves. If the original valves are not heavily eroded maybe they can be cleaned up but the factory valves and seats on the Magnums are usually pretty beat up. No matter what valves you run, you MUST have the guides in those heads checked and honed to size because they were made tight so builders can finish them to proper size.

Pushrods will need to be checked for length anyway because you are going to run a regrind cam and you are using different heads. Maybe they will work, but check to be sure. Be careful on head gasket selection and pay attention to their specs. Many of the LA head gaskets have a large bore diameter so using a thinner one does help much. May be cheaper to use a proper Magnum replacement head gasket and won't give up much compression since the gasket bore is smaller.