Because it's not needed, it's a good way to bend a pushrod when torquing rockers down, especially in a net lash setup such as the stock rocker setup in most of our cars.
A simple prefillPREOILING before initial fire up is more than adequate to fill the lifters without any issues.
Last edited by Supercuda; 09/28/1505:22 PM.
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