[Karfever]

I have a 65 389 which has less than 2k miles since complete rebuild. I believe Jim Mott did the rebuild. It has a Howards cam with the 068 profile, stock rockers a short polylocks. I have adjusted this valve train until I was blue in the face, and finally succumbed to a hot/running adjustment. What I found was a couple of the valves can be adjusted to quiet, but then within 30 seconds become noisy again. This happens sporadically sometimes quiet then clacking then quiet.
The engine runs extremely strong, oil pressure is 40-50 at idle.

I suspect I have a couple bad lifters and have decided to replace them all. This is the issue, I wanted to buy a set of Johnson lifters through Butler, but they are on indefinite backorder. What brand and source would you guys recommend?
Please no cheap off shore stuff!

Thank you in advance!

[Geoff]

Get some factory [ or 25+ yr old ] lifters re-faced.