Then someone needs to call JAM cause I could push the lifters down before i installed them.

 

Yah, you might want to. Mitsubishi Service manual clearly states to pump them till they do not depress anymore.

 

Does anyone have the link to the thread that has the Mitsubishi method? I remember reading it but I can't find it...

 

I'll see if I can dig this up for you. Not too familiar on taking pages from a .pdf and posting them though. Any suggestions?

If you can wait till Monday, I can print them, scan them, and then post them here. I left my shop manual at work.

 

here you go, right out of the manual:

 

Sweet, thank you

 

thanks psphinx81! You save me some trouble. Notice near the last step it states "the plunger must not move at all". One of em moved just a tad when I filled it. This was not acceptable to me. I put it back in, and got it bled so it is solid. It should feel like a plunger doesnt even exist. So make sure it does not move AT ALL if you want to be safe. Hope this helps!

 

i SO do not want to pull these cams out. AGAIN. but they do tick a bit (maybe it's my injectors. i gotta get under there and listen). yay.

 

Installed the cams and used the op's method, no diesel and it worked perfectly. Ticked like crazy on start up, did the "rev" procedure and now it is perfect. No ticking at all, just wanted to share that with you guys, thanks for all the help!

 

Thanks for the info and sorry for bumping an old thread.

 

turns out i had a bad lifter. JAM replaced it right away. did the diesel fuel procedure. they seem to work great. no problems.

 

I cannot move release the check ball for the life of me. I've tried with paperclips and allen keys and fished all around the inside of the lifter. I am trying to depress the lifter head while pushing on the paperclip/allen key and it is not budging. All 8 of the exhaust cam lifters will not move at all...

Has anyone else had this problem? Should I just not even try anymore and consider them bled? I'm going from stock cams to Kelford 272's.

 

They may be damaged. It shouldn't take much to depress the ball inside them, if it won't budge they may just need to be replaced.

 

Thanks for the reply, it turned out the allen key I was using was too big and wasn't touching the ball. I used a smaller key and it worked great!

 

Anybody notice the plunger drop after installing the cams?

There was no noise prior to pulling them out. After installing them with no movement in the plunger, the cam lobes pressed them down. This is obviously more pressure than I can place with my fingers.