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Question about solid roller lifters
Posted: Tue Mar 17, 2009 10:29 pm
by BALDY406
My lifters turn ten years old this year, Am i on borrowed time with them? Should i get new ones before they fail and kill my engine? Oh and same thing with my rockers,they're ten year old Crane golds.
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Re: Question about solid roller lifters
Posted: Tue Mar 17, 2009 10:57 pm
by OLDHEAD
It's not there age that important,How many runs at what spring pressure,how much cam?Any street miles....When you say 10 years I would think that they are not pressure feed either........Think about getting them rebuilt.......Oldhead
Re: Question about solid roller lifters
Posted: Wed Mar 18, 2009 5:55 pm
by adamsvega
rpm,lift,spring psi and the was it was built will tell ya . how many passes how mary miles . do you run restrictors and or vent whistles.
i cheak mine for side play any more than new they get down graded to spare/small stuff or sold on ebay!! if the are spread and are hard to get the roller part out of the lifter bore trash em .
my lunati rollers have 5 hard seasons and 10 yrs on mine aok had isky redlines crap out in the harshest way in 5 passes there is no way to know