List,
One of the big sins I committed in the rebirth of my TR3 falls into the TR
lifter category. Had I been into asking even more questions of the list than
I do, then perhaps I could have omitted this mistake. Thus, my real
motivation for not pontificating it was to give folks a break. R U Happy?
Somehow I didn't number my lifters when i took them out. Even my
excellant
machine shop said, "Naa, it doesn't matter."
For the same reasons, I also didn't number my pushrods when I took them out.
My shop said, "it don't matter"
However, when the list said 'hardness test you lifters' I did do that. I
was a newbie, i tried to follow what I'd heard. Perhaps we could all agree on
a method of 'weighing out/ranking whats important to do in a rebuild. Fat
chance??
When I told my machinist that, "The lifters need to be Rockwell
Hardness 56
or better he laughed." I said, "give 'em here, I'm gonna send them off to
Minnesota for testing...THEY have a ROCKWELL MACHINE!!", he said 'fine'.
Unknown to me, I proably was the brunt of one of their jokes!!
One of the lifters failed the test, so I made another foo pah by
ordering
just one from Moss to replace it. No need to test it I thought!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
I am just tossing in this experience wondering if we could agree to put advice
into one of three categories:
Very important, somewhat important or not important or optional.
Or maybe qualify that as, "very important for racers", etc.
Maybe A,B,C or somethin
BTW, I still don't know what ramifacations out-of-order pushrods, or
having
only one new (perhaps soft) lifter. It might just mean that one-less-spot of
oil hits the driveway, and, a smellier exhaust one day! I'm hoping it will
still run!!
Thanks, Paul Dorsey
60 TR3
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