I know its been posted here before, but I'll post it again. Good read. A test crane did years back, with various spring pressures on their hyd roller lifters.

I do agree. I admit I get a bit carried away with my opinion here.

I do see alot of guys complain about oso today, compared to the old oso. I been around here a while myself. Honestly, when you look back at alot of the old tech threads, there was some HORRIBLE information being given. Guys telling people to stick 741 cams in 598's. Valve spring recommendations that were as good as throwing a dart at the catalog listings, carburetor advice that went against the laws of physics, just alot of misinformation.

Then for a while, whenever someone brought up anything remotely related to a camshaft, or valvetrain part, the responses were limited to "call bob" . If someone asked about tuning their carb, is was "call nickerson". IMO, that is not a tech forum.

Theres some pretty sharp guys posting in the threads as of lately, and theres some good information. Of course when you get a group of gearheads together, theres always gonna be debates and arguments over who's way of doing things is best. Its the same thing over on the car forums too.

Like Black Baja said, its the internet. Nobody's forcing anyone into anything. You simply read whats here, and either take the advice, or leave it. Alot of times , I see guys here something from one person, irregardless of the topic, and they think its gospel, and theres no other way. Things like " oh, you have a roots blower? Well they make too much heat, so you can only run 5lbs of boost". No discussing what size blower, what the actual temps are, what the overall engine build consists of, what ignition setup , and so on. Or things like "oh, its a hyd roller cam setup? Well, then you can only run 140lbs on the seat and 430 open", with no regard to the profile of the cam, the weight of the valvetrain, the max rpm, or any of that. So, when a guy comes on here, and says, "I been running 220/575 lbs on my setup with good results" the original guy thinks he's a liar, and a moron. Then the arguments arise. :party-smiley-004:

Kinda funny I was reading that the other night during family guy commercials. Lol... Good material. Have been some brilliant r&d that had come out of crane over the years. I was glad to see the transition in 09 went as well as it did. Some good grinds have been put out by a few good companies. Ultradyne is one not to be forgotten either.

I waited until the personal attacks ended to say yes,I have bent a goodamt of forks.

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Ok , If they are the Best Available Lifter on the Market then why do they Fail after 2 Revolutions ? Sounds like the lifter bores are not correctly machined to supply oil to the Lifter at the Correct Location . Had that problem with SB2 , when we started running 55MM roller bearing cams . The lifter bore oil hole was 9MM to low , and would barely supply enough oil to keep the push rod cups oiled. *****'s would turn push rod balls and cups blue and gall them to ****. We had to mill a .125 slot in each lifter bore to supply oil up to the lifter body oil supply band ( cut down OD on lifter body ).

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I'm not a rookie. We check that stuff while the motor is being assembled. A flashlight in the oil galley hole tells that story. These lifters come tested from Morel. It takes two revolutions of the motor to adjust pre-load then you start the motor and the lifters don't pump up. We have a bucket full of brand new lifters that never pumped up. And the big core issues like your talking about we just buy the bushing that have the oil hole moved in the bushing. Not everyone does a poor job of assembling a motor.

Thank you! It sucks

Looks like what I start my truck with.

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