DEAR CAR TALK: I have a dealer repair bill for $3,751 for replacing 12 hydraulic valve lifters in the six-cylinder, 200-cubic-inch engine in my 1966 Ford Mustang. The dealer's shop people insist that ...

I have found that the collapsed lifter situation rarely makes any noise. In my case cylinder #6 just stopped working and the pushrod bent falling out of the lifters way. We stoipped the engine almost ...

I have a dealer repair bill for $3,751 for replacing 12 hydraulic valve lifters in the six-cylinder, 200-cubic-inch engine in my 1966 Ford Mustang. The dealer's shop people insist that the head was ...

The failure is so much worse than the lifters. There is a systemic failure at GM right now where they are ignoring these problems, and have been, since the AFM/DOD system first debuted in 2007. It is ...

From the archives: The beauty of hydraulic lifters is that they self-compensate for valvetrain clearances, doing away with the need for valvetrain adjustment. To celebrate HOT ROD's 75th anniversary, ...