Some of you will remember I just got an 82 FXRS, not my first shovel
Possibly had external oil lines (early 82?) but blocked off

Well... it rides fine, just the top end was a little noisier than I wanted, so I removed pushrod covers and BAM, solid lifters.
I remember than even solids, when adjusted properly, should be able to spin with some resistance at its lowest position, not mine. The front exhaust pushrod seemed to be pushing too much just looking at it.. it looked to be an angle between pushrod and Lifter.

Is there any way to know what solids I have? The lifters do not get through the tappet blocks. Is that normal? Or I didn't pull hard enough?

I read here and there than when installing solids, the oil feed to the tappet block needs to be blocked. Maybe that's why the external oil lines were blocked off?

Amy suggestions about what to check to see if the conversion has been done corretly with my set up? Anything to check on the hard oil lines going to the rocker covers?
The oil pump still has the metal pin with the spring over it (like early 82 should have) and the tappet screen is still installed.

Any tell-tell sign that I have a correct solid cam?

thanks!

 

Hard to tell what kind of lifters you have from photos. They made some that were adapters that dropped into the tappet after the hydraulic unit was removed. Others were a total replacement for the stock tappet and roller. If it is the whole unit you have to remove the lifter block and remove the tappet from the bottom.
The previous owner should have told you what modifications were made. Other then taking it apart there is no way, that I know of, to tell what cam you have.

 

to me they look like Taiwan Tedds V Twin china solid conversion sifton lifters the push rods are also his as well --

the adjustment is a loose roll if you make them tighter they will hurt the valve seats at some point the cam can and might be the original one and works with the solid conversion not as good as a solid cam would but it works --jz

 

thanks for the input!
man.. those pushrods were tight!
My only "worry" now is if they did a good, ok or bad job... and if it really had external oil lines and did everything right to run solids...

 

you aleady own a shovel and you know they are very forgiving with repairs

you would not believe what i have seen

 

I bet you have hundreds of horror stories!
Anyway... took the tappet blocks off
The cam lobes look squarish rather than round
The solid lifters have the oil passage facing each other
Is that the case# inside the cam chamber?

Anything that jumps to yuour attention from the pictures?

 

the second picture its hard to tell but it looks as if the 2 center lobs are metal damaged -

they sell blank gaskets with out the oil hole if you cant find them i can 2 in the mail to you

was it leaking oil from the lower push rod tubes ?????

yes that is a match to the chassis number inside the cam cover

 

you are right... inner lobes look a litle damaged
No oil leaks from pushrod tubes than I could tell.... rode the bike for about 60 miles total in 2 days, no leaks, but from primary.
Blank gasket: does that hole need to be blocked? is that because of solids?

 

The oil passage on the tappet blocks that corresponds to the oil passage on the gasket is blocked as far as I could tell at least on the front one. Will check the rear one today.

 

you need a new cam the and the lifters need new rollers