Adjusting hydraulic lifters in an 89\' 5.0

My son and I are back to work on our 5.0 ranger swap.

Just put a new set of stock ford lifters, rockers , a HO cam and timing chain set in a stock 89' 5.0 from a lincoln.

I beleave we just torque the lifters to 22 lbs is that correct?

Thanks Mike Sr[img]/forums/images/smiles/icon_confused.gif[/img]

You mean torque the rockers? [img]/forums/images/smiles/icon_smile.gif[/img]

So you have the pedestal mount rockers. They do make shims to adjust them if needed, but I would always make sure the lifter was not on the lobe of the cam for the rocker I was installing, and then I would just torque them down. Never had any problems.

This was when everything I was using was stock. When heads and stuff start changing, I would go to adjustable stud mount rockers so you can pre-load the lifters properly.

Thanks,
Yes torque the rockers.

We're just cleaning up this stock motor to get the truck put together with a C-4 trans once all the bugs are out of us and the truck than we'll start building a real motor for it.

Thanks Again Mike Sr