Re: Help needed with stuck lifter in my 1929 348

Posted by Owen_Dyneto On 2012/11/11 15:43:21

Thanks for the pictures. Just as I suggested to you a few posts earlier in this thread, a bent arm so you'll need a new arm, roller and pivot (Egge and others have them) and perhaps you can save the hardened pad that contacts the base of the lifter. But the real question is why did it bend? Better next check the lifter to see if it's free, and if the valve is free as well; pretty good guess is something there is what caused the problem in the first place. Yes, you've got the stamped arms, correct for that series of engines.

I doubt you'll find any NOS arms anymore but yes, the sleeve was part of it. Still it should be easy to find a used one, if no where else Kanter's has mountains of old engines and as I said earlier, if you can find the forged arms you could make a replacement but they must be done in pairs - no spring between them, just a precision fit to fill the space.