Hi, after 44 years and close to 300,000 miles I have a bad lifter on my stock bottom end cam/lifters car.
I would like to hear recommendations for replacements to use, there seems to be so many options at Summit I am overwhelmed! stick with MOPAR parts or something else?
Second, looking at the Chrysler manual it appears the lifters can be changed without removing the valley tray. I would really like to do it this way but is it practical? I do not want to remove the tray if possible as all the gaskets and tray have been matched to the heads/manifold and would rather not go through that again!. What sort of special tool is needed? probably won't be available in NZ so may have to make something.

Thanks,

Ray