Checking lobe lift

I would rather measure them pumped up....but I don't believe either way will be accurate worth snot.

I'm leaning this way myself. If the stylus on your DI is long enough to reach the lifter cup, pull the rocker shafts and and pushrods and let it sit for a while. The DI wont put hardly any pressure on the lifters and they should stabilize enought to give you a close enough reading to see if a lobe is going flat or not. With that said, if you had a wiped lobe you'd be getting some racket out of it any way. Cam lobes generally don't just wear a little. When they start to go, they go.