Uncle Jack & all FOT'ers
The stock lifters from Moss were a massive problem & have been pulled
from stock. I had problems with them being too big for the lifter bores &
the face hardness wasn't! This came to light before the end of last year
when I was overhauling an engine for one of my customers. I spoke with
Kelvin Dodd @ Moss & he said that they would only supply the lightweight
competition lifters (part# 838-260) until they could find a vendor with a
proper stock lifter. The lightweight lifters are killer & only cost a
couple of dollars more apiece.
Fred Hodgson
----- Original Message -----
From: "Jack W. Drews" <vinttr4@geneseo.net>
To: "MARY HODGSON &" <STLNYC@email.msn.com>; <fot@autox.team.net>;
<triumphs@autox.team.net>
Sent: Thursday, April 25, 2002 6:29 AM
Subject: Re: faulty parts alert
> MARY HODGSON & wrote:
>
> > Jack-
> > Were those the stock lifters or the lightweight competition lifters?
>
> They were the stock lifters that are priced at $4.95, but the tech guy at
Moss
> said that they make the competition lifters from those............
>
> >
> > Fred Hodgson
> > ----- Original Message -----
> > From: "Jack W. Drews" <vinttr4@geneseo.net>
> > To: <fot@autox.team.net>; <triumphs@autox.team.net>
> > Sent: Wednesday, April 24, 2002 6:37 PM
> > Subject: faulty parts alert
> >
> > > Today I assembled an engine with lots of new parts including camshaft
> > > and tappets. When I adjusted the valves, three of the pushrods seemed
> > > "short". The adjusting screws of those three had to be screwed in much
> > > further than the rest of them. After hours of searching for the cause,
I
> > > found that the new tappetts from Moss, part #838-250, varied in the
> > > depth of the bore in which the pushrod sets. Five of them had a "foot
> > > thickness" of 1/4" -- but three of them were only 1/16" thick at the
> > > bottom!!!!! A sure path to failure and lots of mischief inside the
> > > engine.
> > >
> > > If anyone has purchased these recently, better check them!
> > >
> > > --
> > >
> > > uncle jack
> > >
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> uncle jack
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