Trying to piece together an EA81...

[afterbang]

Hey everyone. I have a very nice 1983 GL 4WD wagon that was gifted to me that I would like to get up and running. A customer at my work brought it in because the car was barely running and it ended up only having 15psi compression on cylinder 1.

 

As of now, I have the EA81 in the car, a member on here provided me another complete solid lifter EA81 that unfortunately had water in cylinder 1 and a trashed cylinder wall, and my boss just gave me two immaculate block halves that were media blasted and properly stored. However, those block halves came from a late model Brat with hydro lifters.

 

I would like to just rebuild a short block with SPFI EA82 pistons with the case halves I have and put new valves into one of the sets of heads with the solid lifter rocker assemblies, but I cannot find definitive information on if I can use the solid lifter rocker assemblies and push rods with the hydro lifter short block.

 

Sorry if this has been covered before, but my searching didn't come up with any solid information.

 

Thanks to anyone that can provide any insight.

[jono]

seen this covered before somewhere, just not sure how true it was.

 

It seems that solid lifters fit inside the sleeve of sintered bronze? that the hydraulic lifters sat in.

 

Also read once that someone caused problems not using solid lifters push rods with solid lifters - they said something like the oil hole diameter was ifferent in the push rod itself.

 

Seen that they are same size hole between solids and hydraulic push rods, just they are different.

 

olids push rods had a steel end cap on each end of an alloy push rod.

 

Hydraulic were all steel push rod with ends shaped to the nice ball shape needed each end.

 

Dunno if the rocker gear itself is any different though ?