The joys of adjustable lifters

[Tony Smith]

Originally Posted by Lynn Eades

Tony, If you have still a bare block, and Darrin, for your next V8 rebuild, drill the hole in the side of the lifter bore (Ford called the lifter a pushrod).

This allows you to insert a small Allen key in the hole and into the body of the lifter. This lets you easily hold the lifter while making the screw adjustment. It makes a future valve lash adjustment (with heads still on) "easy" (all relative) What you also need to do is deburr the hole inside the bore. This I found more difficult than drilling the hole.

Lynn, same idea, I used a pin punch instead of an Allen Key.

Cleaning up the burrs from drilling the hole was dead easy using a 1" Flexhone. A light spin in both directions with a reversible drill was enough. If the burr is particularly big, it might need to be pared back first, as the flex hone will only smooth over the surface rather remove large amounts of material.