If you do a search for “hydraulic roller lifter noise”, or problems you will find there is no shortage of people experiencing less than optimal results.
No lifter brand seems exempt from this....... and certainly not Morel.
That’s a good catch.
If Hughes won’t take care of it, maybe sending the pics to Morel might get you somewhere. I would expect a little more noise from them but this was loud, like collapsed lifter or flat lobe loud, I cut the top off an old rocker cover and ran the engine so I could see what was going on and there was no oil getting to the rocker on that lifter. All the others were fine. But in the end it's $55.00, not sure it's even worth the additional aggravation at this point.
"Follow me the wise man said, but he walked behind"
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