Now you got me worried. I put new lifters into an otherwise refreshed 350 block and I recall one of the new lifters required a slight tap with a wrench end to go down in the bore. I have to take the valve covers off anyway to install my roller tipped rockers and I have not run the engine but what is an easy way to get that lifter out so I can run my finger in the lifter bore to check for a ridge? It is not too late to make sure that lifter can rotate when I adjust the valves. What sort of a tool can be used to pull out the lifter? If there is a ridge a hone will make loose particles, so how can that be avoided? I can imagine putting an oily rag down the bore and fish that out after some slight honing but that might not catch all the particles. Maybe some massaging of the lifter itself with emery paper out of the block might give a very slight reduction in diameter but without a lathe it could take a lot of work with the emery cloth. Comments?

Don Shillady
Retired Scientist/teen rodder