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I don't think so. I was glad when I remembered that I could test the OP without starting the car. You keep coming back to "new stuff seems to fail more often" don't you? :ROFLMAO: That's why I'm trying to stick with what I've got. I'm also hesitant to just throw money at it because that...

I just checked and the front two lifters (1E, 2E) are the only ones that have bled off overnight. 2E isn't completely flat, but 1E is.

I dunno, having many in reserve doesn't help if it eats the first one I replace and scatters metal all through the engine :poop: The things are so simple there's not much that can go wrong, and there didn't seem to be anything unexpected when I took that one apart. I probably should take them...

I don't know if buying a new set will help if that's the case. There might be even more defectives in the new set. Or the next set might be soft or machined wrong and get eaten by the cam. The hot ticket according to many on FBO is to use old lifters and have them refaced. That sounds...

I put the valve train back together, turned the pump with a drill, and I have over 80 PSI (working alone so I had to video the dumb thing) The questionable lifter pumped up but it didn't hold - it bled right back off to nothing not long after I stopped with the drill.

I had 20 on the gauge, it shouldn't have been as bad as it was. Something's up. I'm going to put the lifter, pushrod, and rockers back on and hit it with the priming stick to see if it builds oil pressure next. I found a fan too, one of the 18.5" 2-1/2" pitch ones. $100, and I'll need to...

Dwayne Porter (known machinist) chimed in with the idea that this might have nothing to do with the lifter at all. Instead it might be something that's causing low oil pressure that's making the lifter seem collapsed.

I took the one lifter apart, didn't find anything that shouldn't be in there.

The answer on FABO is to disassemble and clean. I'll give that a try. If it fixes the bad one, I'll go on and do the rest too.

Well it's got one collapsed lifter with no sign of the cam/lifters going cannibal on me. Weird. I don't know what those specs are, dust maybe. No damage though other than it's completely collapsed.

Hoo boy. It still got hotter than I would like. It had a lifter or something tapping like an SOB, but not too unusual; it has always seemed to be a rocker thing. I drove over to my MIL's (~10 miles) to say Happy Mom's day, then came back home and parked to open the garage. I had to turn it...

If it was me making the decision, I would just leave it off instead of wasting time and screwing it up trying to put it on the car LOL.

There are some shorts related to installing the stripe, or you can watch a whole episode that has the first short in it. Short 1: Short 2: Whole episode Mark Worman is goofy but he does a good job explaining things.

Yeah we discussed it, but why paint it when I'm going to just drive it down gravel roads? Graveyard cars does something similar to this on the bottom of the cars they paint. I gotta hurry up and make some room for it to come home I guess.

"Roadrunner in for trimming, this textured and tinted undercoat will offer a level of protection as this Mopar Muscle rips down the road!"

The fan shroud is at the top of the core, here you can see the unclaimed space below it.

I found the repop 216 fan for as much as $50 less. The clutch adds about $60 to that, plus tax, plus shipping. So all told it's going to be over $300. This seems like the way to go, which of course it does now that I've got the electric fan installed. :) I measured a little better and...

Since the electric fan doesn't really fit right, I looked around for mechanical fan alternatives: I've found several 2863 216 fans on e-bay That is the largest pitch listed in the 68 parts book, but note it's not in the A-body column, B-body only. They are mostly rusty as heck and expensive...

It's been raining so no driving action, but I did install a switched ground wire to the fan negative and added a fused wire from the battery to the fan. That's good enough for now. I've only got about 3" between the rad and the pulley, and there are basically no shrouded electric fans that...

I wired up the fan on some alligator clips, ran the car until it was at thermo temp, and turned the fan on. It didn't exactly stop the heat from rising but it did seem like it had better control of things. Remember it's idling in the garage, not driving down the road. So now I'm mostly...