Hydraulic roller lifter to solid conversion

gzig5 said
I like your attitude. The aluminum will probably work fine as long as it stays in compression all the time without excess clearance. That would cause other issues anyway.

I picked up a set of Comp solid rollers for a big block that had one bad roller, to try in my 340. The link bars are wrong and the bar mounts hit the block but I'm going to see if I can re-do the link bars so I don't have to grind away half my block and convert them from needle rollers to bushings. Before I do any of that though, I need to see how much lift they will go before exposing the band. If I can get .550 -. 600" out of them I think I will give it a shot.

I had a set of solid hemi rollers that i looked into converting to LA v bars. Got the .080 AL link bar material and everything. It would not be hard to make the v bars as they were open ended and just slid under the buttons. They are self centering and need only be accurate in their flatness at the ends. I can mail material if needed. You could possibly just gut the check valve area and insert a ball bearing or some other hard spacer down there and preserve the piston and seat and relash the rockers to obtain the .010 or whatever the cam likes. No need to remake the entire plunger.