[Alan Roehrich]

Ceramic lifters rarely fail or shatter unless something else happens first. I'm not a huge fan of them, however, properly used and cared for, they work, and they work well. The problem is they only have two modes, normal, and catastrophic failure, there is no in between. That, and they are vulnerable to the failure of other components.

The only time we've had ceramic lifters fail is when something else broke first.