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Originally Posted by 1980 TA
I'm at the point that I'm not happy with either the plate or the dog bones. I spent time last night trying to adjust the plate one last time, starting from scratch and could not get it to contact the outermost lifters (1 and 2 exhaust were the worst, with 7 exhaust not far behind. For some reason 8 exhaust would catch the plate but it wasn't by much).
I re fit the dog bones and the modified Ford spider was not going to work. I tried the plate holding the dog bones in place and when I got it where I might have thought it was a good idea to fire it up, I tried wiggling the 1,2,7, and 8 dog bones catching them with a pick and trying to move them fore and aft and up and down. They all had a fair amount of fore and aft movement and up and down movement. If I adjusted the plate any tighter, I had too much drag on the inner 8 lifters.
As soon as I get some time to talk with Butler on the phone, I'll be ordering some link style lifters.
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I’ve been thinking about this deal. Do you think taking a little off the bottom of the lower “stand offs” would allow the plate to drop farther down & catch the lifters better? Then you might have to clearance the plate for the ones that are fitting correctly. Just a thought.
Murf