Good morning! I just received the pushrods and can’t wait to try them out. I loved the little gift you included!
One of my lifters/lifter guide failed. Unfortunately, it wasn’t stuck. When I put my little camera in the hole I saw where it was turned. Anyway, that means everything must be done. When I removed the pushrods two of them were bent (same cylinder as the failed lifter). I just assumed I might as well replaced the rocker arms with the upgraded trunions to go with your pushrods. Any recommendations? Should I swap the springs too while I’m at it?
Unfortunately I had already bought the kit from Texas speed several months ago the ago :(.
So I got the heads off today and officially confirmed my diagnosis (after being educated by Crazed Performance University haha). Why are the lifter guides made of plastic? I thought surely someone out there would have made an upgraded guide out of metal but none found so I take it there’s a reason behind the engineers designing them that way?
Next question, I think I saw on one of your videos that you make the stuck lifter tool out of pushrods. Since I am upgrading my pushrods to yours, do you want my old lifters?
Makes sense. Yes, forgot to mention it’s a 2017 LT 5.3 Gen V
Ouch, that's a bummer. Well good news is I have you covered for the full delete kit. https://www.crazedperformancerepair.com/product-page/2015-2020ish-5-3l-ultimate-full-afm-delete-kit (At the time of this post I'm out of the 6.2 camshafts as I just sold the last 2. But I do have some on the way already and they will be here before end of the week. I see you purchased the pushrod upgrade for the newer direct injection engine. So it seems you are working on the 2015 plus model?
As for your rockers, at this point it seems the newer ones do alright with the rockers. Besides that, trunnion upgrades are more useful in performance applications.