Any idea how you can blow the bottom of a lifter off? Picked up an engine I didn’t have any idea about in the beginning of summer and ran it all summer until the end, on the last trip it sounded hurt and had steam and a little water coming out of my driver valve cover breather. Ran a compression test for the first time and found #5 cylinder was low which is where the broken lifter came from. Besides that I also found all my other cylinders were around 220psi despite stock being 120-145psi. Ran 91 pump gas all summer, could pre detonation from the high compression and lower octane be a possibility or maybe a bad break in when they assembled the engine?

That’s a bummer I know you will get it fixed just make sure you drop the pan to find any extra metal re cam it and see ya out at the lake


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