Quick question, so as not to get the keyboard too greasy:

Without the do-hickey called for in the service manual, what is the best way to remove the lifter tappets?

Thanks.

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If you are saving and keeping them to use with your old cam... you should be able to fish them out with the head off (or on if you have a drool tube head) with a magnet/probe.... that being said, I've had a couple of older slant blocks that wouldn't give up the lifter because they had a slight mushroom shape on the bottom.... so in that case I had the block on the stand... rolled it over pulled the cam out and pulled them out the bottom one by one (if stuck you can push out with a brass punch/wood dowel and a quick rap with a mallet...don't let it hit the ground, they can chip if you luck is just right...)

If you aren't saving them... pull cam and push out the bottom of the block and throw into your favorite scrap metal pile...

-D.Idiot

Regrinding the cam, so no need to keep them. But the block is not on a stand yet, so it looks like I'll have to pull the head and fish 'em out. Thanks DI!

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Hey Zorg
You got the best stand in the world just drop your oil pan, Pull your cam and pick them up off the ground.
Frank

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73 Duster - Race Car
66 Dart Wagon - DD
178" FED
82 D150
All Slant powered

Actually, it is sitting on an old tire on the shop floor... The tappets were catching the cam lobes? so I couldn't slide it out. I managed to get it flipped upside down and got the cam out. I'll leave the tappet struggle for a different day.

Getting the cam reground and picking up my engine stand this week...

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