[Fot] Reinserting TR4 tappets w/head on?

[WEmery7451 at aol.com]

In a message dated 8/12/07 5:29:38 PM Pacific Daylight Time, BillB at bnj.com
writes:

<< One of the pushrods pulled a tappet out of its bore.  Oh sh*t!!  I've tried 
all I can think of to slip it back into the  bore.  >>

I did the exact same thing several years ago.  After carefully installing a
new steel head gasket and the head, I removed one of the pushrods, and out came
the lifter.  After a few hours of trying to juggle the lifter back into the
hole, off came the head again.
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