Re: Lifters? Help please!

Posted by bozonono On 2011/2/2 0:49:43

hi, i jsut finished a rebuild on a 54 359 hydaulic lifter engine and it drove very competent mechanics crazy. THese guys know packards and work on all years but it had them scratching thier heads they went through 3 sets of lifters to get enough to make one good set and were purchased from Kanter. but they were still poor and didnt test well even before installation. they ended up getting lifters from Merrit and all seemed fine except at idle. turned out the cam in the engine was ground for mechanical lifters which of course meant some dis assembly to pull the cam and have it reground.

the engine seems ok now but ive only put about 150 miles on it since car was returned. I find it amazing that Packard could roll off so many engines with so little trouble the new ones are jsut a lot of trouble. the engine alone has been a trip.