340 Lifter failure, now what

I have fished the lifters out without removing the intake,most times there is casting flash so you have to move the lifter over to the next cyl.It can be very time Consuming, I too would remove the intake because 50% of the time it takes longer to fish than just bite the bullet and take it apart...
I always remove all the casting flash on cyl heads that I do just in case I have to fish out a lifter...