Nope- - - -mechanical and solid lifters both can be lifted out into the pushrod cover area. If they're mushroomed on the bottom they're too far gone to re-use but they'll still come out of the topside with a little persuasion. Lisle used to sell a tool that would expand into the top groove after the snap ring was removed, then the lifter was coaxed out with a small slide hammer built in, but I'm not sure it will expand far enough to get a grip on a stovebolt six lifter. The one I used to use was made for V8 lifters which are smaller in diameter. I'm also not sure the open area above the lifters would accommodate the length of that tool. I've seen oldtimers grind the jaws of a pair of vise grips so they will grip a lifter body and use them to coax a stubborn lifter out of a bore, also.

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Jerry


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