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ray
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Any experience swapping a good original stock Ford cam and lifters from a problem engine into a good block? Are the tappet bores accurate enough between blocks that the original wear patterns will be the same?
tia,
ray
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snowcone
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You should replace the cam bearings but the lifter bores will be OK provided there is no existing damage to them
Gary - 1958 Star Customline and 1940 Ford Deluxe Hotrod
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Ray; I think it can be done, but there could be problems if you don't replace the specific lifter on the came lobe it was riding on when you put everything into another block. This is because of different wear patterns on the lifter face. If you make a lifter holder and number the lifters to match the cam lobes you should be okay. Rono
 Ron Lane, Meridian, ID
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keep things in order and you will have no problem.ive often mixed them up and still were ok.
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ray
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Thanks for the replies and thoughts. The question is academic now anyway. I dropped the rack holding the lifters  . So now the original cam and lifters are on the way to Oregon Cam grinders.
ray
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Happenings like that can bring out quite a few choice words  . It is all for the better though  .
Mike, located in the Siskiyou mountains, Southern, OR 292 powered 1946 Ford 1/2 ton, '62 Mercury Meteor, '55 Country Squire (parting out), '64 Falcon, '54 Ford 600 tractor.
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How about regrinding it to the blower cam spec's?
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Sum; Might be feasible but a re grind like that apparently often requires reducing the base circle. It may not be practicle to get the proper lift etc. Best start with a new blank..
Paul
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ray
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This cam goes into a working 272 powered F-350 so I want the power / torque at idle and just off idle. I have few doubts the original cam will not grind to original specs but I told the good folks at OCG I want a new cam if this one will not grind to specs. Thanks.
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Ray. It sounds like your question was settled for you when the lifters got jumbled up. The reusing of lifters is a controversial subject and has been brought up before. Here are links to past threads on the subject. Some of these threads are several pages long and reading the additional pages will be necessary to get the full picture.http://forums.y-blocksforever.com/Topic60188.aspx
http://forums.y-blocksforever.com/Topic53489.aspx
http://forums.y-blocksforever.com/Topic52298.aspx
http://forums.y-blocksforever.com/Topic33040.aspx
http://forums.y-blocksforever.com/Topic1161.aspx
Performing a search on the site will bring up more threads on the subject and you’ll see that opinions vary widely on this subject. From my own perspective, used lifters being moved from one block to another is a substantial risk. There’s already enough risk in using new cams and lifters without increasing the chance for failure by using used lifters from another engine. From a shop’s perspective, the risk is simply too high to provide any kind of warranty that could cover this. If I had to use a camshaft from another engine, I’d at least put new lifters on it to reduce the amount of risk of cam lobe failure. Valve spring pressure also plays into this and an increasing of the valve spring pressure over the stock values compounds the issue.
I’ll add that as long as new U.S. made lifters are available, I’ll not use reground lifters in a given application. I reserve the regrinding of lifters for those engines that no longer have a viable new lifter source available for them.
  Lorena, Texas (South of Waco)
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