Thread: Fresh BBC; Noisy Valvetrain

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I pulled the lifters on the "noisy side" of the engine last night including the #8 intake which I found to be "the ticker" and all of the lifters are rock solid when I push on them on the bench. None of them exhibit any unusual or excessive wear on the bottom end and all of my cam lobes (upon preliminary inspection) look good. On the lobes, there is a little trail along each one that gets slightly wider as is goes over the nose. This, to me, is normal. I will measure for lift tonight.
Most of the lifters have a barely noticeable, almost like a "rasberry" (for those who've had smallpox vacc), wear pattern. That, to me, is also normal. The rest of them are hard to determine...nothing unusual though.

I'll sand the new one before I install. Anything else I should look for now that I have it apart and based on what I have described?

Side note: can you re-use intake gaskets?