Solid lifter question
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Solid lifter question
Has anyone heard of putting a ball bearing under the spring in the tappet screen hole and omitting the screen when converting to solid lifters. I know that you plug the tappets themselves with set screws to keep them from filling with oil, but this is the first time I've seen this done. Bike in question is a 1980 80" Shovel with an S&S solid conversion.
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It's new to me too. Motor had a lot of leakage around the pushrod tubes after the solids were put in, so I sent it back, and it came back with no leaks, so I wonder if it's a trick to put another roadblock to the oil going to the tappets.
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That's my guess, but are the tappets the only thing that would have the oil shut off by doing this or does that oil have other places to go through that screen? H-D says that S&S has a note in their solid conversion instructions that say to do it, but I've got the same instructions and I can't find that step. Motor has almost 20,000 miles on it since the rebuild with no problems (aside that it took me this long to check that tappet screen), so I hope there's no catastrophic blow up on the horizon.
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Thanks for the input George. I'm gonna talk to S&S about it before the weather turns. They're about six miles away from here. I guess if something were to go terribly wrong it would have happened already, but I'm gonna check my cam lobes and lifters and see if there's anything out of the ordinary.
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