You're holding in your hand the perfect reason to switch to a roller cam/lifters. I bet you could get the entire system from a Treasure Yard for a hundred dollars--cam, lifters, dogbones, spider, thrust plate, timing set, pushrods, and all the screws and fasteners needed.
MAYBE you'd need to buy the timing set new, and you'd want to pull the lifters apart one at a time for cleaning.
Yes, you "should" pull the entire engine apart for cleaning of the metal debris.
"I" would look at the remaining fifteen lifters. If you've got a small number with excess wear...I might slam a roller cam in the thing, flush the oil pan, and screw on a new filter. Don't get me started on Frantz a_sswipe "bypass" oil filters bought used off of eBay. If all the lifter bottoms are wiped...yeah, it's teardown time.
For the record, I ruined my first engine, too. '66 283.
A. I had lots of "help" assembling the thing. In a friend's father's dirt-floor shop. (I discovered years later that the floor was concrete, it had just never ever been swept-out.)
B. Got put together with no distributor-to-oil pump driveshaft. Had to pull the pan in-the-car to jam in the driveshaft.
C. The rods and caps weren't matched, or even in the right holes. I've blamed the Ford guy for that.
Engine ran for something less than a year. Tossed the torsional damper inertia weight off the hub--which should have been a clue that the crank was unhappy. Crammed-on another torsional damper. Spun a rod bearing a couple of months later.
MAYBE you'd need to buy the timing set new, and you'd want to pull the lifters apart one at a time for cleaning.
Yes, you "should" pull the entire engine apart for cleaning of the metal debris.
"I" would look at the remaining fifteen lifters. If you've got a small number with excess wear...I might slam a roller cam in the thing, flush the oil pan, and screw on a new filter. Don't get me started on Frantz a_sswipe "bypass" oil filters bought used off of eBay. If all the lifter bottoms are wiped...yeah, it's teardown time.
For the record, I ruined my first engine, too. '66 283.
A. I had lots of "help" assembling the thing. In a friend's father's dirt-floor shop. (I discovered years later that the floor was concrete, it had just never ever been swept-out.)
B. Got put together with no distributor-to-oil pump driveshaft. Had to pull the pan in-the-car to jam in the driveshaft.
C. The rods and caps weren't matched, or even in the right holes. I've blamed the Ford guy for that.
Engine ran for something less than a year. Tossed the torsional damper inertia weight off the hub--which should have been a clue that the crank was unhappy. Crammed-on another torsional damper. Spun a rod bearing a couple of months later.
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