FORD 351 CLEVELAND CAMSHAFT SWAP PART EIGHT HYDRAULIC LIFTER INSTALL 

Hi guys, Great videos 1-8. Rebuilding my C-351 from 1972 Mustang. You are the best channel on RU-vid!!!

This is so good to see. I've been doing this for 40 years (on everything with hydraulic lifters). It's amazing what you find on supposedly professionally built engines that come in for "tuning problems". Lifter preload is also my first go for rocker geometry issues as you mentioned. Great vid & great explanation.

Mate, great video. I have an xb with a 302 and this has made all sorts of things make sense to me. Cheers

I learned something valuable today. I always presoaked my lifters in oil as I was taught. I have a stock bore Cleveland that I'm building, and I'll follow your video. Done a bunch of windsor engines. But I've always loved the Cleveland. Chevy racers cry everytime a Clevo gets on the track. They say we have an unfair advantage, and the track outlaws them.

I'm here state side in Los Angeles and building my first engine, a 351M 2V. This pre-load vid just took all the worry about wiping a cam lobe at first start. its a mild 252 .46 lift cam going into it.

Nice work Clevo

Great job and well explained.

Awesome video bro 👊

The boys the boys from Brisbane

Great. I didn't do this when I cranked my lifters down and then started my engine for the first time I was going to damage something! May have washed out the cam. As it is running rough now. But do not have a performance cam. All the lifters are moving properly. I don't see any issues. But rough running at about 2000 rpm. Idle is seemingly fine other than all the rocker noise. But after watching this I'm still not sure about preloading lifters. I'm wondering if there is a better explanation that I can understand, so when I replace my cam I won't do the same thing again and tighten everything down to torque specs on my 351C. No one ever told me I needed to shim the valve train! No one ever told me cleveland's needed a preloaded set of lifters. After watching video I need to know how to preload a lifter. Why I'm doing it, and what it is I'm doing it for. Thanks.

Flat tappet cam failure happen to you? It did with my 351m build. One lifter lasted 25 minutes. Break in startup was perfect. Engine was fully oil primed, moly lube on the cam(which was installed by machine shop). .494 lift cam and FAIL. 1/16 lifter failure. Going roller now at a huge expense. Got any suggestions on roller rocker set, adjustable or not. Head been milled. 015 and deck .010. Comp Cam and lifters BTW.. Nothing crazy lift or duration 218° both sides and 110 LSA .494 Lift with stock rockers Thanks.

Ok this is on a dry engine, what is the procedure and torque process to install the rockers on an installed 351C engine with hydraulic lifters?

Really good advice in this video Ozzy - talk about devil in the detail ! I always just dropped lifters in and cranked rockers down - but that was with a virgin block and heads. The new clevo is decked 15 thou and heads milled 5 thou ( but no idea if they were ever machined before - maybe not, as exhaust seats were super receded ). Should I just get a new set of 20 thou shorter pushrods all round vs. shimming all the fulcrums up 20 thou ? Cheers guys, loving your channels 💪

anyone know why after new cam and lifters i get a rattle after 1500 rpm? is it push rods cam or my budget lifters what do you guys use

I spy a little windsor on the ground with a 5 bolt bellhousing pattern so my guess is 289

Hello Clevo king. When setting up the pre load and shim the rockers should the cam be at base, not on lobe? Thank you

Is it necessary to put adjustable studs in when u put a bigger cam lift my Cleveland has bolts for the rockers

Hey clevo king when I built my 351 the manual just said torque the fulcrums down to spec but should I set to tdc and then zero then torque them down Stock engine virgin block Cheers

Any recommendations on what to put in my oil to try and help a lifter that just started not wanting to prime all the way and getting a tap and miss intermittently in my cleveland? Short of swapping a new cam and lifter combo in it

Do you have to machine the heads when you put the bolt on rockers?

hey bro, a question i put a new camshaft on a 351c but it bends the pushrods, do you know if the pushrods need to be changed? or with the originals it has to work fine? thanks

Hi mate, is there anyway to email you, really want to pick your brains, you seem to be the most switch on person about these engines.we dont have many in the UK so good info is hard to get.