What are these?

Redfire 05

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• Jan 31, 2007

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What are these plastic things on the lifters? They resemble the dog bones, and the spider holds them down, plus there is a hole for the pushrods. I'm just wondering if these are okay or should I put the original dog bones back in?

Please ignore the bad picture quality. I compressed it a bunch to get it to fit on stangnet.

 

dragnazz5.0

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• Jan 31, 2007

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i have never seen anything like that. kind of wierd actually. hopefully someone will chime in with an answer for you.

 

Redfire 05

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I am assuming they are there to keep the lifters in place when the engine was shipped. So, I took them out.

 

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Sicarius428

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I would put the dogbones in. Plastic in a hot engine on moving parts doesn't sound like a good combo and by the looks not all that sturdy. I too think they were there for shipping purposes.
Kevin