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#66175 09/21/2006 10:55 PM | Joined: Feb 2001 Posts: 81 Shop Shark | | Shop Shark Joined: Feb 2001 Posts: 81 | I am planning on replacing the entire set of hydraulic lifters in my 62 1/2 ton -235 c.i. engine. How do I adjust the lifters to get the engine started? Do I follow the procedures used for solids? If not how tight do I set each lifter to get the engine to start without damaging anything? Is it necessary to preload the lifters? Any suggestions will be appreciated. By the way the engine is a 55-57 truck engine that came with hydraulic lifters called a Blue Flame and is suspose to be adjusted 1 and 1/2 turns past zero clearance.
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#66176 09/21/2006 11:07 PM | Joined: Jul 2004 Posts: 5,708 'Bolter | | 'Bolter Joined: Jul 2004 Posts: 5,708 | Edabbs,
We would always fill a coffee can with oil, put the new lifters in and let them sit overnight.
I understood this would fill them and make the rest of the adjustment more pain free.
We could always see little bubbles floating to the surface, so I assume it worked.
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#66177 09/22/2006 1:37 AM | Joined: May 2006 Posts: 8,351 'Bolter | | 'Bolter Joined: May 2006 Posts: 8,351 | I'd say to do as atomarc stated to pre-fill the lifters. Use the method for solids, but set them at 0, then re-adjust after warmup. The general concencus is that 1 1/2 turns is too much, usually 1/4-1/2 turn will suffice.
Also, I think you actually have a passenger car engine. The truck block wasn't drilled for hydraulics until '57, and even then they didn't have them until the '60s (though a few pass engines may have slipped out in trucks). The truck engines were refered to as TaskMaster, the Blue Flame was the passenger car designation.
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#66178 09/25/2006 4:49 PM | Joined: Feb 2001 Posts: 81 Shop Shark | | Shop Shark Joined: Feb 2001 Posts: 81 | Thanks for the help Guys!
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