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Old 12-16-2015, 01:48 PM   #79
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Default Re: Adjustable lifters keep backing off - what do u do?

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Originally Posted by Ross F-1 View Post
That's what I've been running for about 5 years now. He claimed (at the time I bought them) that they were "brand new NOS, original Johnson lifters". They came in a Johnson box, certainly appeared to be brand new, and included the original (crappy) Johnson wrenches. I've had no problems with them, and although a couple are not "real" tight, they have held clearances. Very suspicious that he seems to have a never-ending supply of them...
Maybe these lifters are some of the ones referred to in post #65, the Hylift/Johnson website. Seems a bunch of lifters, etc. evaporated from company premises while a shyster/crook was running it (who is now in prison).
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