new morel lifters no oil to top?
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new morel lifters no oil to top?
I put new morel lifter in to replace the old comps and now have no oil up top. Using a drill to prime it havent started it yet, did notive to oil hole are 90degrees off from the comps. Get about 40 lbs of pressure with the drill.
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Did you try turning them around?
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Nope installed them bars facing in.
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Also might want to make sure you got 460 lifters and not small block ones.
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[quote="nitro717"]I put new morel lifter in to replace the old comps and now have no oil up top. Using a drill to prime it havent started it yet, did notive to oil hole are 90degrees off from the comps. Get about 40 lbs of pressure with the drill.
your going to have to notch the morel lifters, i have not used any yet that i didnt have to, just remember the bigger the notch the more the oil. i dont feel those lifters or just drop in and go lifters.
your going to have to notch the morel lifters, i have not used any yet that i didnt have to, just remember the bigger the notch the more the oil. i dont feel those lifters or just drop in and go lifters.
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Yeap that's what i was just betting on...
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Please Keep us posted, I'm going to be using my first set in a bit.
What part number are you using?
What part number are you using?
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just had to take a dremel tool to a set.....
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What is the reasoning for that? You would think the mfg would do that rather than the customer,UNLESS that same lifter can be used in another app.
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If the horizontal oil hole is not connected to the center band....Dremel zizz wheel time.
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bbf-falcon wrote:What is the reasoning for that? You would think the mfg would do that rather than the customer,UNLESS that same lifter can be used in another app.
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winner.nitro717 wrote:I put new morel lifter in to replace the old comps and now have no oil up top. Using a drill to prime it havent started it yet, did notive to oil hole are 90degrees off from the comps. Get about 40 lbs of pressure with the drill.
your going to have to notch the morel lifters, i have not used any yet that i didnt have to, just remember the bigger the notch the more the oil. i dont feel those lifters or just drop in and go lifters.
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it dont need much a lot goes a little goes a long ways
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I have those lifters in my A460 block. Oiling is correct. No need to notch or do anything to the lifters.
But....my block was honed to the correct clearance.
But....my block was honed to the correct clearance.
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richter69 wrote:it dont need much a lot goes a little goes a long ways
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Curt wrote:richter69 wrote:it dont need much a lot goes a little goes a long ways
amen
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Same thing happened to to mine ....Ran it for a few minutes and pulled the covers off ...dry as a bone.
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Morel intentionally manufactures their lifters with a lifter body diameter that is on the high side (those which are sold under the Morel brand name). They do this so that the performance engine builder can size his lifter bore clearances exactly where he wants them, just like sizing the pin end of a con rod, for example. It's intended as high-end application stuff. If you don't set the lifter bore clearance, you may not get adequate top end oiling.nitro717 wrote:I put new morel lifter in to replace the old comps and now have no oil up top. Using a drill to prime it havent started it yet, did notive to oil hole are 90degrees off from the comps. Get about 40 lbs of pressure with the drill.
New blocks will need to have the lifter bores sized, and used blocks often need to be sized...or you can lightly notch the lifters instead of honing the lifter bores. (Another nice thing is if a used block's lifter bores are worn a thou or so, the Morels can "compensate" for that in some builds.) I think it's great that we have a lifter body with alkl of this in mind, and from a high quality manufacturer.
And Morel makes some very high quality lifters. People who use them and companies that offer them under their own brand name include: Force, Roush/Yates, Hendrick's, RCR...Isky, Crower, Merc, Lunati, and more.
Paul
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all fixed and have oil where there was none before. [img][/img]
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man thats a big groove...........
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David Cole wrote:I have those lifters in my A460 block. Oiling is correct. No need to notch or do anything to the lifters.
But....my block was honed to the correct clearance.
YES ... those lifters require a downward motion of the lifter body to force oil from the groove to the hole via lifter bore clearance. You won't see much oil up top regardless of the oil pressure unless the engine is running.
EDIT; According to them, these lifters were designed to run with NO other type oil restriction to the upper end. If you have an "A" type block with lifter bore oil restriction, it needs to be removed or the lifter needs modification.
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Paul Kane wrote:Morel intentionally manufactures their lifters with a lifter body diameter that is on the high side (those which are sold under the Morel brand name). They do this so that the performance engine builder can size his lifter bore clearances exactly where he wants them, just like sizing the pin end of a con rod, for example. It's intended as high-end application stuff. If you don't set the lifter bore clearance, you may not get adequate top end oiling.nitro717 wrote:I put new morel lifter in to replace the old comps and now have no oil up top. Using a drill to prime it havent started it yet, did notive to oil hole are 90degrees off from the comps. Get about 40 lbs of pressure with the drill.
New blocks will need to have the lifter bores sized, and used blocks often need to be sized...or you can lightly notch the lifters instead of honing the lifter bores. (Another nice thing is if a used block's lifter bores are worn a thou or so, the Morels can "compensate" for that in some builds.) I think it's great that we have a lifter body with alkl of this in mind, and from a high quality manufacturer.
And Morel makes some very high quality lifters. People who use them and companies that offer them under their own brand name include: Force, Roush/Yates, Hendrick's, RCR...Isky, Crower, Merc, Lunati, and more.
Paul
Paul, the difference between Ford's high to low spec. for lifter dia. is but .0005". I doubt that much of the issue here is high vs. low.....above the high side would be another issue.
Comp's 836-16 lifter is ~ at the low side. In 1986 I was having an issue with pushrod erosion....I put a lot more oil to the upper gallery [I had a Boss 9 block]....no relief. I had to use the hillbilly grind or file thing to resolve it. My contact at Comp was made aware of the issue and the set of lifters we got the next year had the feed hole rotated in the lifter 90* closer to the gallery......issue resolved. They FIXED it.
Fastforward: 7-8 years ago to Doug Rahn's A460 engine. Doug supplied a nice set of Crower Hippo lifters...guess what...little to no oil to the rockers...I was and still am pissed More hillbilly crap...this time on an expensive lifters
Fastforward II: ~ 2 years ago I was involved in a very nice A460 build.....the owner requested .904" Crower lifters. Upon arrival, the inspection revealed that Crower had machined this really coool micro groove between the oil band/waist of the lifter.....they FIXED it
Before someone thinks I'm trying to burn a cross in Morel's yard......we are a stocking dealer for said lifter & I may have been the guy that sold the ones that Fabio just had to adjust....they just need to FIX it.
Re: new morel lifters no oil to top?
i had crowers in my 526 and had no problems.i replaced them with isky and had no problems.the new 605 has crowers and realy oils the top a little more than i wanted.the only time i ever had to work on a roller lifter was in a 351c with restrictors in the block.hillbilly way can save the day!
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