[Fot] Lifter Reconditioning

[Bill Babcock]

Larry, a crown isn't proper. They call these flat lifters for a  
reason--they need to be dead flat. The cam is designed to work with a  
flat lifter. A crown will reduce the contact area and probably make  
the lifter stop rotating. A pretty sure way to toast your lifters and  
cam.

second, reconditioning lifters is pretty iffy anyway. These things  
need to be as hard as they can be. Grinding them without some  
hardening process involving vile chemicals known by the state of  
california to cause instant death and an alchemist is scary. What you  
need--what we all need, is some very hard lightened lifters with very  
flat non-chamfered, non-crowned faces.
On Mar 15, 2008, at 8:15 AM, Larry Young wrote:

> Can someone recommend a shop that reconditions lifters, i.e. resurface
> the foot of the lifter with the proper crown?  I've seen a few  
> places on
> the web, but some seem rather expensive, e.g. Integral Cams $11.70  
> each,
> Web Cams $5.00 each.
> Larry Young
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Bill Babcock
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