Which Hydraulic Roller Lifters?

[Nxcoupe]

Which Hydraulic roller lifters did you use in your BB? Share the good and bad. Would you buy them again?
I'm going hydraulic roller in my 361 stroker build and want to see who's had good luck with the brand they chose and who hasn't.

 

[Vertex_Jeff]

The 505 in my '67 Cuda is running a set of Gaterman. They are nice and quiet and seem to be working fine with my shift points up to 6500 rpm. In past iterations of the engine, I ran Morel Limited Travel as well as Howards branded as Trickflow. The Howards didnt seem as stable at 6,000 rpm. The Morel Limited Travel were noisy, and the preload adjustment threshold seemed to be pretty touchy. Just my 2 cents. Here is the Gaterman info: Retrofit hydraulic roller lifters for Plymouth, Dodge, Chrysler V8

 

[6PKRTSE]

I have also run Comp Cams with now over 65,000 miles in one engine and I have also used Morel and Gaterman lifters with no issues.

 

[70ChargerRT]

For a hydraulic roller after a morel failure I wouldn’t run anything but a Johnson Lifter.

 

[65CopCar]

After PRI I am convinced I will never buy another roller lifter with roller bearings. Bam and Johnson now have lifters that use a bushed bearing. I think Bam only makes bushed bearing roller lifters. I would feel good with either a Bam or Johnson lifter.

 

[70ChargerRT]

After PRI I am convinced I will never buy another roller lifter with roller bearings. Bam and Johnson now have lifters that use a bushed bearing. I think Bam only makes bushed bearing roller lifters. I would feel good with either a Bam or Johnson lifter.

BAM didn’t use to make a hydraulic roller lifter for a Mopar but maybe they do now. I don’t know if BAM would But I don’t think Johnson would care to build a custom lifter but It wouldn’t bother me one bit to run a Johnson roller lifter with needle bearings.

 

[BSB67]

If you are having roller bearing failures with hydraulic or solid street roller cam profiles/pressures, you are experiencing a quality issue, not a roller bearing issue.