2000 TC88

Doing some work, and when I pulled the lifters out I was a bit puzzled. If you look at the picture and see the blue paint marks, the 2 lifters on the front cylinder had the paint marks facing outboard, and the rear cylinder had the exhaust lifter mark facing outboard, and the intake lifter mark facing inboard. Someone has been in the cam chest, as it has the Screaming Eagle hydraulic tensioner cam plate/oil pump conversion in it. If the answer is in the manual, I can't find it. Any idea what's going on here?

 

The manual says the feed hole on the lifter should face inboard.

 

Oh yeah and you should consider making those lifters into paper weights and get some s&s standards.

 

Perhaps someone marked them as they took them out so they could put them back in the same position.

 

That's odd. With the antirotation pin in place, the hole either faces forward or rearward. I'll see what happens when the new lifters get here.

They're coming with the new cams.

 

After 50 years of wrenching and seeing very strange things, they probably did, then installed them wrong anyway.

 

Lifter orientation doesn't matter, they can go in either way. If putting old ones back in try to get them in the original hole/direction

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Thank you. I assumed the bleed hole didn't care what direction it was pointed, but better safe than sorry.

 

Only matters if you follow the manual...ive read different opinions on the orientation.

 

Good video on why to discard the harley lifters, like Screaming Beagle said:



Ride safe!