Fishing lifter from oil pan

I figured as much. With the way my luck is going I'd snap the nose off the crank. LOL
 
man ya'll disappoint me in you knowledge of shade tree mechanics. do you have a tree and a come-a-long? then you have a cherry picker. this is the easiest way to remove a inboard motor of a boat cause a cherry picker wont reach high enough.
 
Don't have a tree big enough or tall enough or even close enough for that and I'm not about to hook a come-a-long to my garage ceiling either LOL.
 
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Honestly, I don't know what you can do. If you got a HUGE rare earth magnent and stuck it to the side of the oil pan, then slide it up toward the front of the engine where you could see the tappet through the space between the timing cover and the oil pan.. That might work.

Good luck. Hopefully something works so you don't have to drop the pan.
 
I dropped the oil drain plug in my oil pan while I was installing the twins and I didn't have to unbolt the motor. I just unbolted the oil pan and kinda got it twisted sideways far enough that I could get my arm in their to fish it out. took me about 20 minutes.
 
SKYNYRD said:
man ya'll disappoint me in you knowledge of shade tree mechanics. do you have a tree and a come-a-long? then you have a cherry picker. this is the easiest way to remove a inboard motor of a boat cause a cherry picker wont reach high enough.
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Now that right there is a damn good idea. No way I'm forgetting this.:hehe::hehe:
 
Justin Price said:
I dropped the oil drain plug in my oil pan while I was installing the twins and I didn't have to unbolt the motor. I just unbolted the oil pan and kinda got it twisted sideways far enough that I could get my arm in their to fish it out. took me about 20 minutes.
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That's what I'm hoping to accomplish tonight. Then the fun of reinstalling the lifter begins.
 
Tyler, pick up some zip ties and tie them up before you mess with it anymore. Dustin had the cam out of his truck for 2 weeks and the lifters never wiggled with the zip ties.
 
I would use romex connectors. 3/8" work great. The true term is escaping me right now, but they are what you use in a metal box to hold the romex in place.
 
do you have any rental places near you, you can rent engine hoist pretty cheep, I dont recommend cutting and re welding your oil pan, you dont want to risk getting metal down in their, and dont lift on the crank shaft they are strong that is alot of stress you will be putting on it take the time do it rite and pull the pan
 
This is an option, but I don't condone it! Just put the truck on a trailer, leave it unhooked and in neutral. Get driving down an empty road about 75 mph, take a sharp turn and hit the brakes. Your turd that won't break 500hp will no longer be a problem, and you won't have to worry about the lifter either.
 
No go. Gotta jack the engine up. Nothing is rattling in the pan and I stuck a grabber all the way though the lifter hole in to the pan and never hit anything. I tried shaking it around to maybe knock em loose but nothing fell. FML.
 
BgBlDodge said:
No go. Gotta jack the engine up. Nothing is rattling in the pan and I stuck a grabber all the way though the lifter hole in to the pan and never hit anything. I tried shaking it around to maybe knock em loose but nothing fell. FML.
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Damn Tyler. Only you. :bang
 
I should have known this wasn't going to be an easy swap. Nothing on this blue ***** is simple. Hell it fought me to take the blasted air filter off. It's just like my ex, fights with me on every thing I do. LOL
 
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