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An engine shop I workrd in for a period of time would put a fresh longblock on their stand, and rotate the crank with an electric motor. The lifters all had a tiny white stripe on their tops and you would spin the motor for fifteen seconds or so to make sure all the lifters spin before ever putting the intake on. Not really a do it at home solution. A very reputable engine builder I know has his cams ground with an extra 2 degrees of taper on the lobes to avoid this, and has them parkerized twice. I think both of those engine builders probubly lost a customer's motor and decided to not let that happen again, at least not for that reason.
I don't know, I just hone the lifter bores lightly, make sure my fingers can rotate the lifters with no sticking, and get lucky.
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In a fit of 16 year old genius, I looked down through the carb while cranking it to see if fuel was flowing, and it was. Flowing straight up in a vapor cloud, around my head, on fire.
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