^ I thought of that after the fact. Let the lifter drop.. Oh well. live and learn. I got the lifter bore cleaned up this week. It feels pretty good. Just felt like a couple rough spots. Cleaned it with a file and emory cloth. Gonna flush it out with some oil. Going to run some cheap conventional for a couple hundred miles to flush everything out.
I got all new LS7 lifters, new cups, Melling 10295 pump, LS6 springs and a stock cam for a 2000 Camaro. I was trying to pull the oil pan last night. I have to get the crumbs out of there. I don't want it destroying a new oil pump or anything else. The pan wouldn't clear the pickup tube so I lifted the engine off the mounts a little and it still wouldn't clear. so I proceeded to pull the engine out but it won't let go of the trans. I think the alignment dowels are swelled up. I'm going back at it today and going to button it back up and drop the front differential. I got a truck guy that is gonna stop by. he knows that front end pretty well.
The heads are iron... Not even 317s. No casting numbers other than this. I kept the tool pretty flat and used a medium wheel.
