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lifter stuck in bore
Working on a garage find!
75 vette vert with 60K. Body is near perfect, No rust showing on frame, but engine - not so perfect. Inspection sticker is 1989.
Checking out the engine, Using an inspection camera the bores look good, having intake off, slight sludge, but asumme just the oil that dried up in the valley, heads are clean. Primed the oil system and using the crank hub tool the engine turns over, but exhaust lifter is #1 is stuck solid! Soaked with every, PB blaster, WD40, etc etc. It will not move. can't even get it to rotate. No way the lifter removal tool is going to pull this thing out!
Doing all gaskets, and hoping the lifter is up far enought that we can slide the cam out and maybe tap the lifter down and out ( been a long time since I worked on flat tappet, can the lifter drop out the bottom? ). Thoughts on this? or any tricks before we end up pulling the engine and sending it to a shop? Hoping to keep numbers matching.
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93Z M6 Black: The 385 Lives! Supercharged, 3-core front mount intercooler, GTP heads, 3:73's, Street twin clutch, Jethot Longtubes, Mufflex 4" catback/spintech, S+W cage, Spohn Suspenion, Yada Yada Yada
1) Build it
2) Race it
3) Break it
4) Repeat!!!
Last edited by Pampered-Z; 03-06-2012 at 03:42 PM.
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