I lubed the sides of the lifters in motor oil and the faces of them with Crower’s ZPaste and acting as if new break in... if I ever get to that point while sorting rockers, shafts, and pushrods. Oh and when installing each lifter I verified that it could easily rotate in the bores and move up and down etc. so as long as the cam rotates them... should be ok.
With the push rods installed, preload set and the intake off rotate the engine to ensure that each lifter is rotating properly. Dont get nuts with the number of crank rotations or you will kung fu your breakin procedure.
I dont think this is going to work.
Best of luck.
