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So… I have been trying to remove the camshaft… and like a dummy I did not ask or buy a book etc.

So what book should I buy?

Turns out the valve lifters are all stuck in their hole.
I don’t want to use channel locks on them to get them out…. Surely that damages them?

Could I use feeler gauges (or some other quite smooth steel) to shove between lifter and cam, then rotate assembly to help push the lifter(s) out a bit more?

(I have them soaking in some combo of wd-40, roil, and pbBlaster for now).

Thanks.

PS: I am sure the machine shop would pull the lifters and cam… but I have never removed a camshaft… so I want to pull it,,, even if I just put it right back in.