Calling all gen 3 hemi gurus

Well, I sure would love to inspect the lifter that was on that lobe. If in fact it was perfect and the lobe is giving way, then either can be a problem. I've had cars (police fleet) where the cam was perfectly fine and the lifter's roller had given up in one way or another. Usually, by the time we had symptoms, it was too late to get to the very first stage of the problem. By MY experience of at least a dozen patrol cars, it was either the lifter was bad, or the lifter and cam lobe were both too wiped out to determine which one went bad first.