Matt,

When I did my cam swap my truck did the same thing. It's normal whenever doing a cam swap on a motor with hyd lifters. When you go through setting up the lifters and torquing the rocker studs down, you squish all the oil out of the lifters and they lose their prime. I had a 2 lifters that wouldn't pump up even after idling for 5 minutes. I had to go for about a 10 minute drive around town raising and lowering the RPM's got the oil warm and the pressure to fluctuate and pump the 2 bum lifters back up. All is well now as well

 

In all the times the rockers have been off this truck I have never heard this kind of noise. One side started then the other and then I shut it off. Then I said if its going to blow up then I can build a 408 and stepped on the gas.

 

Thats the attitude to have

Im the same way about my 418 now if it just makes it back to texas then blows Ill be happy then I can make me a 434 or 438

 

I knew you where going to like that comment

 

Hell after you work on stuff for a while you get to the point where when something breaks its not an "oh ****" occurence its a chance to upgrade

Makes things a hell of alot easier to deal with atleast for me since I have a knack for blowing stuff up/ breaking things.

 

I hear you, I think this is the best this truck has been. Only thing that will make it better is a Radix. Then if it blows up, well I don't know.

 

You need to get a stall in that turd

It will make such a huge difference, one of the best mods I did out of everything.

 

Yes I need a stall, that will be in the spring I think. I Need to think about a built trans or getting someone to build this one.