The lifters spin in there bores because of the crown. The cam lobe has a slight taper that causes the lifter to spin on the lobe. My concern is if these lifters are wearing in the middle they will cease to spin and wipe out the cam and lifters.
Im doing a cheap refresh on my sbc 350. I am inspecting the cam and lifters that were in the engine to see if they could be reused. I know the lifters are supposed to have a crown and when you touch the two faces of two lifters together you should see light around the edges and they should rock...
I couldn’t tell you a generic brand to choose. In my opinion it’s going to vary between vehicle brands. I like to research and choose either oem of it’s reasonable or find the oem manufacturer of the parts. Otherwise I’ll just look on rock auto, find a part and brand that looks good and then see...
Im not sure if you can bench test just the voltage regulator. Often if the voltage dips low on an alternator that looks like that with worn brushes and a bad slip ring it could be that the contact between the ring and brush is gone and not charging the battery although i would expect the...
I would not change the regulator or rectifier. Oem is probably the best quality and has proven itself to work thus far. I would clean everything up and put new bearings, brushes, and slip ring and call it a day.
Had a 2000 lexus es300 with the 1mzfe since new. It always started. Even the ac was on its factory charge. The shop forgot to tighten the oil filter once and it ran out of oil but after refilling it kept on trucking to over 200k miles. Its still going strong on its second owner. There are Issues...