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Old 08-12-2020, 06:08 PM   #1
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Default Re: How to best modify Smith lifter?

Hello, to make a long story short....THROW schubeck/smith lifters in the garbage can AND/OR sell them to someone you don’t like......Like Bill said....TOOL STEEL......He has been there and done that...l.
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Old 08-12-2020, 06:26 PM   #2
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Option #2 is the way I would go.

16 grenades with the pins half pulled out...now that's another story.
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Old 08-13-2020, 06:38 AM   #3
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Default Re: How to best modify Smith lifter?

with those lifters the fuse is lit and the bomb will go off, the question is when?
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Old 08-15-2020, 12:07 PM   #4
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Default Re: How to best modify Smith lifter?

Just out curiosity why can’t you just take the inside spring,piston and out and just install the pushrod seat and retainer that’s all that a solid lifter has.
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Old 08-15-2020, 12:39 PM   #5
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Just out curiosity why can’t you just take the inside spring,piston and out and just install the pushrod seat and retainer that’s all that a solid lifter has.
Won't work if you have pushrod oiling, nothing to meter the oil flow.

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Old 08-16-2020, 03:04 AM   #6
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Default Re: How to best modify Smith lifter?

You can. The pushrod seat (no pushrod oiling hole) bottoms on a shelf at .015". Whether or not it'll last...the jury says Boooom! And, there's plenty-o-proof to validate the jury.
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