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Offline Steve Wood

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Re: Troubleshooting a miss, etc
« Reply #150 on: April 17 2012, 11:50:39 AM »
Keith!  those lifters were mated to another cam.  Correct?  So what happens now that they are put on top of another cam?  It takes 20 minutes to break in a set of lifters.  400 miles is a lifetime!

So you are planning to put in another cam and lifters, but are you planning to rebuild the entire engine because the crank and bearings were ruined by all the cam metal being pumped thru them?

Don't make me cry!  I am too old!
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Re: Troubleshooting a miss, etc
« Reply #151 on: April 17 2012, 12:01:52 PM »
Steve, what I would love to do is buy one already built, but that might make my wife cry. lol
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Re: Troubleshooting a miss, etc
« Reply #152 on: April 17 2012, 01:28:05 PM »
You better buy her something that cost more than the engine!
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Re: Troubleshooting a miss, etc
« Reply #153 on: April 17 2012, 08:40:32 PM »
11 pages...an epic thread... :icon_eyes:

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Re: Troubleshooting a miss, etc
« Reply #154 on: April 17 2012, 11:36:43 PM »
Wait until the next one...  If all the lobes and lifters puke at the same rate, it's going to be ugly ugly.
  It's bad enough when just one lobe and lifter fails.
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