RustyRatRod
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Well that's cool as all hell. I sent you a PM with my number so I could walk you through a couple of things but I am real glad you got it. That's great. Now maybe it'll last you awhile.
I got a lifter problem...I think?
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Someotherguy
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yeah i got your pm when i come back in to post that its ok now...
I owe you a happy meal if i ever see you in person
I still have a slight issue with a kind of a half miss that it's always had since before this issue, i was hoping that would fix it, but alas...it did not :0/
But i'm happy that this issue is fixed...
and now, time to scratch some rubber offa dem taaars
I owe you a happy meal if i ever see you in person I still have a slight issue with a kind of a half miss that it's always had since before this issue, i was hoping that would fix it, but alas...it did not :0/
But i'm happy that this issue is fixed...
and now, time to scratch some rubber offa dem taaars
Good work, Rusty. Experience is a wonderful thing. Pat yourself on the back for saving 'someotherguy' a lot of money and aggravation. Way cool, man...
RustyRatRod
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Sheeot. He did all the work. He wouldda figured it out. Maybe I sped him up a little but he did a good job on it. I love it when a plan comes together.
sublimegtx
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Been lurking and some laughing in the background here. A kudos to Rusty for a job well done. Someother, glad to see ya got it. Rusty's very knowledgable/helpful, he's helped me out before also. :headbang:
Someotherguy
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just wanted to update the thread with a video of how it's running now
[video=youtube;pqWvmlqYQL4]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pqWvmlqYQL4[/video]
[video=youtube;pqWvmlqYQL4]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pqWvmlqYQL4[/video]
RustyRatRod
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Does this mean I caint come to tunasea and get me a 318?
Someotherguy
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well rob, for the moment. yes, i guess i'm gonna keep this one a while
RustyRatRod
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I reckon that's a good thing.
Someotherguy
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well, it is for me
Again, thank you for all you help on this issue...I appreciate it
Again, thank you for all you help on this issue...I appreciate it
RustyRatRod
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You did all the work buddy. Good job.
Glad everything is working fine. I was going to ask which direction you put the oil hole in the lifter, but it looks like it is working fine now. I had a customer put his heads back on a 3.9 V-6, and put all of the hole down. Needless to say, the lifters only pumped up because the hole is supposed to point up to the hood to bleed properly. Glad to see you put yours that way, or it might not matter for the V8 roller.
Someotherguy
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I don't think it makes any difference which direction the oil hole faces...the design of the lifter negates any particular direction being necessary...
RustyRatRod
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Puzackly.
rsd859
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Good job! Nice vid too!
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Fun thread, would read again.
It does matter, and the lifters for the 3.9 thru 5.7 are the same unit. Here are some links to look over, and pay attention to the note on lifter orientation:
http://stores.hi-potek.com/-strse-3.9-fdsh-5.2-fdsh-5.9--ENGINE-cln-Lifters/Categories.bok
http://www.rebuiltautoengines.com/chrysler-intrepid-articles.html (TB-480 at bottom of page)
http://www.moparchat.com/forums/showthread.php?t=71166
http://www.dodgetalk.com/forums/showthread.php?t=101175
I could keep going, but you should get the point. I would not post a tip if I was not sure it was correct. If your setup works fine, then you must have put them in correctly.
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Someotherguy
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Interesting info there...I didn't pay any attention to which way the oil hole faced when i reinstalled them..I doubt very seriously that i got them all pointing up lol...but from what i read in your links, the only thing it causes by not pointing them up is some valvetrain noise at initial start up..which i do not have...
But just for curiosity's sake, i will check all of them the next time the intake comes off, which will be sometime this summer...
But just for curiosity's sake, i will check all of them the next time the intake comes off, which will be sometime this summer...
I am not sure how bad it would be for the 5.2/5.7, but in a customers 3.9 I did the heads for, his were all down, and would not bleed down. They eventually (real quick) held the valves open.
RustyRatRod
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From the text I read, it was not that they didn't bleed down installed backwards, it's that they DID bleed down. It clearly says in all the text you linked to that the holes should point UP towards the intake to KEEP the lifters FROM bleeding down and rattling on restart. Also, it says this only about the "revised" lifters. If his are not the revised version, the way I read it, it does not apply to him. Maybe that's why he hasn't noticed a difference.
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