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.

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

keep things in order and you will have no problem.ive often mixed them up and still were ok.

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

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

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

ray