360 Block Lifter Ticking

Pull the intake, remove noisy lifter, disassemble, clean, and re install. That’s like a 2 hour job. I don’t get why you don’t want to pull the intake.

It has AC with Edelbrock aluminum top end, my luck I'll pull threads out of something. Plus it is a show finish under the hood and pulling it apart without chipping paint sucks. Plus when I finish a restoration there is no expense spared and it is suppose to be _finished_ and all I want to do is drive it after that. I have other projects in the queue.