Roller Lifters
What keeps our roller lifters from spinning around in their bores?
Packman
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There is a plate that keeps them in the right position, sort of like a stud girdle....
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Well, I have been beaten LOL...1990 LTD Crown Vic w/ dead 5.0
1984 Pontiac 6000 cammed 2.5L Iron Duke
1986 F-150 300 6cyl 5spd.
1994 Crown Vic... Free, bad trans?Comment
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Here is a picture of an after market (Crane Cams) spider plate, that keeps all the the lifters in the right direction.... The regular spider plates are probably a little different, but I can't find a picture of one... We are getting ready to replace the roller lifters in my car.,.. I'll get pictures when we do....
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I thought the ford ones were slightly heavier but that looks pretty close that the one i remember from around 3 years ago.1990 LTD Crown Vic w/ dead 5.0
1984 Pontiac 6000 cammed 2.5L Iron Duke
1986 F-150 300 6cyl 5spd.
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that's a ford retainer... crane's retro kit used stock ford bieces with special bolts to mount it to the galley. it's a thin spring steel with little dogbones the go on the pairs of lifters.Builder/Owner of Badass Panther Wagons
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A few of us have always wondered if you can convert a non-roller block to a roller block using the spider and tapping holes/bolts into the block, but noone I know of has tried it.1983 Grand Marquis 2Dr Sedan "Mercules"
Tremec TKO conversion, hydraulic clutch, HURST equipped!
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thats all the retro kit does....Builder/Owner of Badass Panther Wagons
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the dog bones keep them from rotatingGive a man a fish and he will be fed for a day. Teach a man to fish and he will promptly forget that he once did not know, and proceed to call anyone who asks, a n00b and flame them on the boards for being stupid.Comment
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Alright, I see. I forgot that I used to see the Ford Racing conversion kits in Summit. Will the 5.0L conversion kit fit a 351W? Assuming that I can't find the F4TE block.
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351 is wider, so no. Should be the same dogbones, but the spider is different86 Lincoln Town Car (Galactica).
5.0 HO, CompCams XE258,Scorpion 1.72 roller rockers, 3.55 K code rear, tow package, BHPerformance ported E7 heads, Tmoss Explorer intake, 65mm throttle body, Hedman 1 5/8" headers, 2.5" dual exhaust, ASP underdrive pulley
91 Lincoln Mark VII LSC grandpa spec white and cranberry
1984 Lincoln Continental TurboDiesel - rolls coal
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Really? The distance between the tops of the lifter bores should be the critical dimension, and that ought to be the same (same lifers, same angle).
There's also the fact that both Ford Motorsport and Comp Cams list the same part number retainer kit for both engines ........
I've heard a rumor from a Corral.net member that a stock roller cam CAN be used with stock roller lifters and the stock lifter retainer system (i.e. "dogbones" and "spider") in a nonroller block. More official advice is, of course, that in order to safely use stock-style roller lifters and retainers in a nonroller block, one must use one of Comp's special reduced-base-circle hydraulic-roller conversion camshafts such as the 35-421-8, and otherwise it is more advisable to obtain link-bar lifters. I had intended to try to verify the Corral member's claim a few weeks ago, but discovered I couldn't find my new-in-box 5.0 lifters.
Last edited by 1987cp; 04-22-2009, 11:37 PM.2012 Mazda5 Touring | Finally working on the LTD again!
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