Re: Lifters? Help please!

Posted by Anthony Pallett On 2013/4/25 7:30:28

I know this is an old post but I was reading through it. There was a post about using hyd lifters on a solid cam or the other way around. I don't know specific to Packard but most solid cams are harder than a hyd counterpart. In a mechanical cam you have a lot of bouncing around and if solid lifters are used on a hyd cam it will beat it to death very quickly. If you go the opposite hyd lifters on a solid the ramp is different and you would have a chance on collapsing a lifter. if you have a hyd cam use hyd lifters and if you have a solid cam use solid lifters. On a Packard it may work but if it doesn't it would be a very expensive lesson to learn.