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[[File:Lifter expolded view.jpg|thumb|200px|left|Arrow points to check ball retainer]] | [[File:Lifter expolded view.jpg|thumb|200px|left|Arrow points to check ball retainer]] | ||
[[File:Lifter clips 002.jpg|thumb|350px|Three styles of lifter cup retainers. The [http://www.truarc.com/pdfs/Truarc%20Catalog.pdf internal C-clip type] is stronger and should be used especially with solid lifters or when "zero lashing" lifters.]] | [[File:Lifter clips 002.jpg|thumb|350px|Three styles of lifter cup retainers. The [http://www.truarc.com/pdfs/Truarc%20Catalog.pdf internal C-clip type] is stronger and should be used especially with solid lifters or when "zero lashing" lifters.]] | ||
| + | [[File:Rhodes v max lifter.jpg|thumb|350px|Retainer clip used on Rhodes V Max lifters]] | ||
{{Caution}}Lifters and cam lobes become wedded as soon as the engine fires up and the cam is broken in. From that point forward, the same lifter '''has''' to be kept on the same lobe, preferably in the same engine. To replace a faulty lifter with a new lifter (or to replace a used cam with a new cam, reusing the same lifters) is to ask for a catastrophic failure requiring the engine to be torn down to remove the shrapnel left from the destruction of the cam lobe(s) and lifter(s).<br><br> | {{Caution}}Lifters and cam lobes become wedded as soon as the engine fires up and the cam is broken in. From that point forward, the same lifter '''has''' to be kept on the same lobe, preferably in the same engine. To replace a faulty lifter with a new lifter (or to replace a used cam with a new cam, reusing the same lifters) is to ask for a catastrophic failure requiring the engine to be torn down to remove the shrapnel left from the destruction of the cam lobe(s) and lifter(s).<br><br> | ||
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