Quote: man your brave if I lost a lifter I would tear the motor down searching and cleaning the whole thing out. Were all the pieces there when you took them out to out the lifter back together?
in short, the only thing i 'lost' was the diaphragm inside the hydraulic roller lifter, it just wouldn't stay pumped up. all the bits from the diaphragm, 4 or 5 pieces, (see pic) were contained inside the lifter still when i took it apart. everything looked perfect, the roller, lifter bore, pushrod cup, pushrod, no marred surfaces, and nothing could get out of the lifter, due to the pushrod covering the hole on top, which also looks perfect....
i too would have torn it down to parade rest if it were an actual metal wear problem on any surface, but it really doesn't appear to be anything like that......
