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Re: 1953 216 stuck lifter...how to free it up? Crowbar65 #1415003 06/26/2021 4:54 PM
Joined: Jun 2012 Posts: 1,749 Ut S Steve_H 'Bolter
Steve_H 'Bolter S Joined: Jun 2012 Posts: 1,749 Ut	So it moves. Good. Keep working it up and down and it will get loose. When the valve spring can push it down as the engine is turned over it will probably pull out. Steve H

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1953 216 stuck lifter...how to free it up?	Crowbar65	06/20/2021 1:26 AM
Re: 1953 216 stuck lifter...how to free it up?	Hink	06/20/2021 4:57 AM
Re: 1953 216 stuck lifter...how to free it up?	Southtowns27	06/20/2021 9:59 PM
Re: 1953 216 stuck lifter...how to free it up?	Hotrod Lincoln	06/20/2021 11:59 PM
Re: 1953 216 stuck lifter...how to free it up?	klhansen	06/21/2021 6:01 PM
Re: 1953 216 stuck lifter...how to free it up?	KEVINSKI	06/21/2021 6:18 PM
Re: 1953 216 stuck lifter...how to free it up?	Crowbar65	06/21/2021 10:11 PM
Re: 1953 216 stuck lifter...how to free it up?	Steve_H	06/26/2021 4:54 PM
Re: 1953 216 stuck lifter...how to free it up?	Hotrod Lincoln	06/26/2021 6:23 PM

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