[Tim Corcoran]

The Hy-Lift Johnson SFT liters come with or without an EDM hole depending on which one you order. I used to be a dealer and used to sell both types. Also I was an FAA inspector for many years and I am currently a delegated FAA inspector as an independent contractor and I can tell you that the FAA does not inspect production parts as alluded to in a previous post.

[PAUL K]

Originally Posted by Tim Corcoran

The Hy-Lift Johnson SFT liters come with or without an EDM hole depending on which one you order. I used to be a dealer and used to sell both types. Also I was an FAA inspector for many years and I am currently a delegated FAA inspector as an independent contractor and I can tell you that the FAA does not inspect production parts as alluded to in a previous post.

Maybe you can share your thoughts on this. Johnson before it became Hy-lift used to check the hardness on every lifter it sold. Around 1990 they stopped this process, the same time the great lifter debacle of the twentieth century started. I could never wrap my head around why they stopped this. I thought if they performed the test for decades obviously they were rejecting lifters. If they weren't finding soft lifters why did the waiste effort checking every single lifter until that point.

[Formulajones]

Originally Posted by Tim Corcoran

The Hy-Lift Johnson SFT liters come with or without an EDM hole depending on which one you order. I used to be a dealer and used to sell both types. Also I was an FAA inspector for many years and I am currently a delegated FAA inspector as an independent contractor and I can tell you that the FAA does not inspect production parts as alluded to in a previous post.

Yep I remember that, I bought a set from you years ago when I think you were living in Arizona at the time.

They are still going strong by the way

[P@blo]

Looks like the Melling JB-951 no longer is the hard capped style lifter. Last set came in looking the same as a Sealed Power HT-951 and are priced alike.

The JB951 also look like the ones Paul Spotts sells on ebay that say they are USA made. The lifters have the non-polished ground cam face listed in the Top Line catalog actually looking the same as theirs. Unknown body material though...

[Jay S]

The Delphi hardened foot lifters, which Melling and many other companies sold as the 951# part number are apparently not being made right now. The plant in Mexico stopped making them.

[P@blo]

Just curious, was topline shut-down for a year and then the employees started it back up again?

I am getting conflicting info on who is making lifters in the USA. Apparently Johnson makes the lifters for Sealed Power and Melling now. The Top Line lifters look different compared to a SP as well.

[Jay S]

Originally Posted by P@blo

Just curious, was topline shut-down for a year and then the employees started it back up again?

I am getting conflicting info on who is making lifters in the USA. Apparently Johnson makes the lifters for Sealed Power and Melling now. The Top Line lifters look different compared to a SP as well.

Currently Hylift Johnson does not make lifters for Sealed power, elgin, Melling, or Speed pro. Those are likely all oversea garbage like the lifters Pual K has pictures of with the bottom of the lifter worn off. That is unless you happen to find a NOS set of Delphi’s from those companies.

You can pretty much tell a lifter made by HLJ right now by looking at the price, just under 200 and up $$$

[PAUL K]

Originally Posted by Jay S

Currently Hylift Johnson does not make lifters for Sealed power, elgin, Melling, or Speed pro. Those are likely all oversea garbage like the lifters Pual K has pictures of with the bottom of the lifter worn off. That is unless you happen to find a NOS set of Delphi’s from those companies.

You can pretty much tell a lifter made by HLJ right now by looking at the price, just under 200 and up $$$

A lot of folks seem to think they will get a HLJ lifter that was re-boxed because the generic lifter number for a Pontiac is 951. If a place is selling cam & lifter packages for $189.99 with free shipping you won't be getting a quality set of $200 lifters with that deal.

The performance automotive business isn't like the HVAC industry.... We are doing great if we can mark up a part 10% over cost, with most being closer to 5% (which rarely covers our time spent ordering the part and answering all the questions that go along with it).