Please help I.D. early hemi lifters.

Happy Friday, y'all!

I got a set of these bad boys about a year back off eBay, along w/ a couple cams for 331-392.

The one cam was a roller grind; can't remember whose, and it's buried away deep under a bench right now.

The lifters are hollow inside, but have an oil hole in the side, and one in the bottom too. And I didn't get any guts for these, and the seller didn't know what brand they were. But, I'll let the pics do the talking...

http://www.jalopyjournal.com/forum/attachment.php?attachmentid=159669&stc=1&thumb=1&d=1139030110 http://www.jalopyjournal.com/forum/attachment.php?attachmentid=159693&stc=1&d=1139031621


http://www.jalopyjournal.com/forum/attachment.php?attachmentid=159694&stc=1&d=1139031621 http://www.jalopyjournal.com/forum/attachment.php?attachmentid=159695&stc=1&d=1139032258

Can anyone I.D. these?

Thanks much.

Oh, yeah... GO SEAHAWKS!

 

That's a set of vintage lefthanded Telecaster 10-42 Humbucker lifters from Leo's Speed Shop in Fullerton, CA..just my guess.

 

Try over on this site. They know their early Hemis.http://www.thehemi.com/forums/index.php?sid=467b2b4eb8856be839723e7473548b2cCrazy

 

Good guess, Krooser, but not quite...

Nothin' here came from Leo's shop, but the strings are 'F-spaced' (8-38 lefty). Neck is Jackson, preamp was custom made by Aphek; the rest is all aftermarket or scratch built.

Problem is that the lifters have a step in 'em about halfway up, or they'd make great slides.

 

I'm pretty knowledgeable about hemi's and I've never seen anything like that. That means it's not a mainstream cam companies product. I have some of the very first rollers ever made and the body is solid brass. I've never seen any with the step.

 

I have a set of the same exact lifters which came out a desoto hemi.

I am pretty sure they are herberts. I have a copy of Hot Rod (november '53) which has an ad for herbert roller lifters on page 73. It is exactly this lifter. I don't have a scanner, otherwise I would put a picture here.

 

Hopefully these pictures work....

One is of the lifter I have which is the same as yours. One is an unknown roller lifter for a desoto hemi. The other is the ad I was talking about.

 

Yup, that's them!

Thanks Blair, for digging that out.

A little while ago, I was on my 'user CP page' and deleted a bunch of pics, inlcuding the ones for the lifters - I figured nobody was going to come up with this... just goes to show:

DON'T UNDERESTIMATE THE POWER OF THE HAMB!

-bill