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- Thread starter biguglycaprice
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One more lost item
Good job, after reading this it sparked me for one I made moons ago just another
thing I cant find. This worked excellent starting off with a 12" thick wall pipe so far
like yours, drilled and tapped but to trail the work I used Detroit Diesel followers,
which are valve lifters theyre rollers, I made ball ends on the screws like a push rod,
then I think it was gum dum or liquid nail or something I put on the ball end just to
keep from losing it. Looks like I got to make another only,think,them ole 6-71s fell
into the cracks of history.
ball end in lifter is self centering and the great width of the roller keeps it on track.
My sons junk box has many 302 roller lifters, but Im thinking the rollers maybe a little
narrow and not track as well as big wide diesel ones. Ill get back with my findings.
Good job, after reading this it sparked me for one I made moons ago just another
thing I cant find. This worked excellent starting off with a 12" thick wall pipe so far
like yours, drilled and tapped but to trail the work I used Detroit Diesel followers,
which are valve lifters theyre rollers, I made ball ends on the screws like a push rod,
then I think it was gum dum or liquid nail or something I put on the ball end just to
keep from losing it. Looks like I got to make another only,think,them ole 6-71s fell
into the cracks of history.
ball end in lifter is self centering and the great width of the roller keeps it on track.
My sons junk box has many 302 roller lifters, but Im thinking the rollers maybe a little
narrow and not track as well as big wide diesel ones. Ill get back with my findings.
