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Ok everything is here and time to get this over with. Only question i have is do i need to preload the lifters. Where you push down on them with a pushrod and get all the air out. I know i need to let them soak, but in what oil my regular i guess and how long also. This is a new one to me.
Soak them in the oil you are going to use in your motor. Stand up the lifters in a bucket or what ever . Submerge the lifters in oil. Make shure the lifters are standing up when you do this. Now get a pushrod and push down the plunger. you will see air bubbles come out of the oil hole in the lifter.Repeat this untill there are no more bubbles. Your lifters are now preloaded. (The oil level in the container you are useing need to be higher than the lifter when the lifter is standing up.)
thats what i thought but just checking, any others thoughts
That's the exact way I've been told to do it also mark...what kinda lifters did you get?
just the ls7 replacement ones only 150 so hope that is whats been ticking
Do not soak them. Just dip them before you put them in
Soaking is fine. The real question is if you have stock rockers or ones that require valve adjustment. If they are stock OR do not require adjustment, soak them (doesn't even matter sitting on the side or upright) then throw them in.
Heard of them exploding after being "soaked" I'd just dip them before install...
Gotcha thanks buddy soaking in some Royal Purple right now
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yeah you don't want to crack your block mark then you'd have to go 408 lolQuote:
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