I have an 09 Dodge Ram 1500 with 330,000 miles on it. I have used full synthetic oil since day one. The lifters started ticking about 10,000 miles ago but I am now finally able to dedicate the time to do this job as this has been my main vehicle and I couldn't afford to let it sit for too long. I hope to get another 50 to 60 thousand miles before I finally trade it off. I've not had to do anything major to the engine, just a couple sets of plugs, a sepentine belt and tensioner, and 3 water pumps. I also had to replace the radiator at about 200k miles. Along with the lifters, I'm replacing the complete timing set, spark plugs and wires, valve cover gaskets, heater hoses, upper and lower radiator hoses and water pump. Maybe I'm sinking too much time and money into something with this many miles, but this has been one of the most trouble-free vehicles I have ever owned, and I have definitely gotten my money's worth on this pickup.

You made the rocker arm and lifter look very simple to remove and reinstall. Sometimes I like to work on my own vehicle, dealerships rates are outrageous. Thanks

With that motor, the oil journals where the oil comes from to the lifter gets plugged not getting enough oil to the lifter. It's not usually the lifter. Take lifter out. Crank over the motor to blow out the oil journals that are plugged. You will know when the oil squirts and hits the hood so best put a rag over it. Only takes a crank or two to unplug them. Replace the lifter or use a new one. Works every time. It took me 4 times taking mine apart to figure it out with new lifters.

thank you martin , your knowledge is very helpful, i just bought a 4.7 WG and love it to bits. all your videos are professional. cheers

Always change your oil on time with full synthetic and try not to constantly romp on the accelerator and you're golden. I have an 03 Durango with the 4.7 and it has been a very reliable engine. 171,000 miles. I've had it for 4 years and the only things I've had to replace were the radiator and the alternator. Now the front end is another story, but that's a just Dodge thing 😂

I just got done doing my lifter on a 2002 dodge ram 1500 4.7 i removed air intake, wire harnesses, radiator hose, disconnected the battery, removed master cylinder from brake drum,and removed brake drum in preparation for this project. Everything went well except the parts store sent a wrong part in place of one of the lifters. i had to go back to the store get the right one and soak in oil for another 12 hours(i cheated and soaked for 8 so i could have it done that day). I used his advice through the whole project and it went well. 2 thumbs up!!! thank for taking your time spent making this video.

We bought a 04 Durango with the 4.7, I have the 4.7 in my 04 Ram as well. My Ram runs like a dream, has slight noise on startup but goes away within seconds. It has 201k on it, I got it with 165k. Previously it was a state owned vehicle so had regular maintenance. The Durango on the other hand has about 155k, has significant noise that does not go away. I know these motors are notorious for valvetrain noise due to the valve adjusters getting plugged with crap, but didn’t know how hard it would be to repair. After watching this video I am confident that I can get the job done myself. Thanks for the video, to the point and not a lot of irrelevant talking.

Thanks Martin for posting this video. My 01 WJ 4.7 had a valve seat come loose about a month ago and I took the heads off and had the machine shop replace all the valve seats. They had a way to install them so that they won't come off again. Well I put the engine back together and it ran great for a few days. Then this morning I went to start it and it made a loud tapping sound followed by an engine miss and a p0303 engine miss code. I had a hunch that a rocker came off and pulled the driver's side valve cover off and there it was. The exhaust rocker fell off. Bought a new lifter for about $13 and popped in like you did and it runs great again. The previous owner wasn't too good about doing regular oil changes and so there was a fair amount of sludge in the engine. I dropped the oil pan and clean the pick up tube and screen as well to be safe. So far so good. Thanks again! Very helpful video.

Easy as pie, thanks for your video. Your right keep oil clean, like any engine.

Thank you for taking the time to make this video and explain everything in detail, I'll be replacing my lifters next weekend and it's nice to know it won't be a 3 day event.

You sir, have made my day. I was just about to buy the tool and was worried about lead time on it (plus the price). I already have a 10mm brake line wrench ready to volunteer. Thanks again.

Great video Sir !! Very helpful . I want to point out to others how clean the interior of that engine is . This is why you change your oil on a regular basis using quality synthetic oils and filters ! Thumbs up !!!

Say Bruh, thank you very much. I thought that I was going to have to, pass out, wake up, and still have to deal with this problem. But then I see you. Smooth, direct, straight to the point. Now I got it. Again, THANKS BRUH. Much Love For You

Thank you for that sir...makes it easier than I thought it was going to be. Love it!🙌

Martin you just set me on fire! Mad props!

2014 Dodger Durango 3.6L.... worked perfect!! Thanks for the post. Hardest part was getting everything else taken off to get to it.

thank you so very much., great video from mexico.

Great video. Very useful info. Not having to take the camshafts out to replace the rockers or the lifters 👍👍👍

Great video, very informative and your video quality really makes it easy to see what needs to be done to get the rocker off and back on. I have a 06 dakota I picked up. It needs valve cover gasket a but think I will tackle this as well while in there. Thank you for posting.

Hey, Martin - the "crafted" 10mm worked BETTER than the Dodge tool! Thanks for posting this vid. Everything worked better than I expected.

excelente amigo. muchas gracias por tu trabajo y por enseñarnos. saludos desde venezuela

Great video, thank you sir!!

martin i love the cadence and the way you relay information to the audience keep up the good work.

Awesome Video....Very detailed and great knowledge

I’m doing this right now on my long weekend . I underestimated getting driver side valve cover off .. it’s a pain in the rear end . But anyways I just wanted to say thank your all the videos that you do . I watched your timing chain video an handful of times before I did mine on my dodge .

Thank you for hosting this video I have to say you removed with it the intimidation out of me to do this. My jeep Liberty with over 300k miles I'm suspecting a lifter got stuck and one of the rockers got knocked over. I saw a video with ame symptoms as mine and I sure hope that's what it is. Have used synthetic oil but last year or so services have been at over 6600 mile if not more. I regreat it now but the damage is done.

Hey man great video I had purchased a 02 Durango and it has a bad lifter and I just found 3 rockers not connected like they fell off but just saw this video it’s going to help so much better but when I installed the rocker I accidentally loosened the bolts to crank but tighten it back up and it drove good after

thanks great video saved me some cash

Sometimes I miss that ol’ 04 WJ overland I had. It was my first V8 and even though I’d laugh at it now, that thing felt lightning quick after owning my 08 JKUR for nearly 5 years. Lol! Great video!

Great video. Short, sweet & to the point.

thank you for your video i just replaced the lifters in my 2002 jeep liberty 3.7l i used a 10 mm wrench , bent the end and grinded on it to make it thinner, it popped the rocker right out just like you showed. and used a small pry bar and a flat screw driver to pop the rocker back in. thank you very much for sharing your knoledge.

I want to give credit where credit is due. I had an extra 10m wrench and bent it in the vise to look like what you had and it worked great!! I used it 100% to remove lifters and 90% of the time to install, at times would have to use a screwdriver to install. I installed 16 lifters got them from Napa, Sealed Power lifters $240 job took about 15hrs ( I took my time and I don't do this as a profession) I reused the OEM valve cover gaskets they looked good and are installed and not leaking. I removed the water reservoir. The right valve cover I loosen the air conditioner condenser on the firewall, I removed the oil pickup and the air conditioner and moved it to the side to give me clearance to remove the valve cover. I soaked the lifters for 30 min in 5-30w and installed lifters and turned over the engine with socket wrench on the flywheel to ensure lifter lob was not depressed. Drove the truck for the past few days and runs great. Thx again for this video

1st time I see your video you explain so much easy to understand thanks

Great video!!

Thanks Just fixed a friend's 2002 Ram 1500 V-6 Luckily RF cylinder so it was easy breazy JT Orlando, FLA

Thank you sir! I’m working on my dads 2004 Jeep Grand Cherokee Overlander, easy to understand and helpful. Much appreciated!😎

I just ordered the set of lifters you have posted in the description, I have been using 10w30 Pennzoil ultra Platinum full synthetic because here in Texas I was told to run thicker oil from the high heat temps, so I will prime my new lifters that I have coming in 10w30 for 24 hours before I install, do y'all think its a good choice using 10w30 when I see Martin using 5w30? Any thoughts?????

Does this work on any engine? I have a 4B1 (Mitsubishi lancer) and need to replace the lifters. I don’t want to pull everything apart for me to have to take the cam shafts off and mess the timing up

Would you know if the lifter are interchangeable between the 3.7 and 4.7

Excellent & Helpful Video Tutorial !! Thanks a Lot Amigo !!

Great video. Excellent best practices.

Question please; I need to rotate the cam (on that same L.H. head as in video), because I'm about to put on timing sprocket and chain, but realized I'd run the valves into a piston. I do know cylinder #1 is @ TDC, so would I be ok with only removing #1 intake and exhaust rockers? I'd figure so since the other pistons are recessed. Thanks

Excellent simple video. Thank You.

I have a 2006 jeep commander and can't get to the back of engine to get the lifters or anything off, including taking the head off? Recommendations??

great video

i just bought new "melling" lifters, but some of them are firm and some are squishy. Is that a problem? (maybe the squishy ones will pump up when i run it the first time?) worried i got some defective ones...

Thanks Martin!

So if the cam shaft is in the wrong place? Do we still change it? Or is there a way to move it before you put it back together?

Hi Martinbuilt great informative video! Kinda new to this have a couple of questions... should I remove the fan shroud before trying to turn the harmonic balancer to release a couple of valves and which way do I rotate it standing in front of the engine clockwise or counterclockwise? Thanks for your help!

2008 jeep Liberty 3.7 puting in timing chain got at tdc drivers cam went on pretty easily passenger side seems like it's fair amount of from where it should be. any ideas of what I am doing wrong

about todo this on my 13 ram 1500, is there any lifters brands that are better than others?

Awesome Video thank you

Ey Martín thank u so much

Thank you for this video.

Excellent! Thank u my friend......

Hi martin , thanks for your videos. Would a new set of melling lifters be a reliable replacement to the factory lifters?

I'm looking at engine to purchase for a 2007 Dodge 1500

Nice video

I was also taught that having your Jeep WJ run hot (210°F+) on the 4.7L causes the lifters to stick or fail = thousands in repairs. I have altered my cooling system from a hydrolic fan to a Viscous clutch fan with upgraded plastic 11 blade Ford 5.9L fan with slight modifications to clutch face and fan blade bolt holes. I only have an additional 6lbs on the water pump and that causes under 2MPG/3HP loss. Ive been doing fine without the fan shroud with my clutch fan and small E-Fan combo. 12.5" Spal fan that is rated at 2800-CFM and the Severe Duty Clutch fan has over 3650CFM according to my Anemometer

Martin, I could not find the video where you talk about adding rislone oil treatment to your oil. Which product do you use to help reduce the tapping noise from the valves? Thanks Merry Christmas & Happy New Year!

Also I have read stories where engine flush gets rid of the ticking sound (some times) and other stories where they tried everything including lifter replacement, and the noise still wouldn't go away.

You just saved me a few 100 bucks thanks

Nice video..

Hey man!!! You are a great reata-parada!!!! (reata-parada in Mexican Spanish means almost a genius)

Gracias amigo, excelente información. Saludos

Dood, Thanks ! ! You Rock ! !

Hi Martin, is there a way to test the hydraulic lifter if it is bad by moving the tip up and down? Most of my lifters have tips that can move up and down by hand, but two are solid. A tow truck driver told me the ones that move are bad, but idk which ones are causing the tapping at start-up.

Now I can do my 3.7 in my jeep grand cherokee laredo thank you so much

Great video man thank you. What brand lifter and rockers are you using getting ready to buy the parts and want to insure i get it done right the first time.

Thanks for sharing this would turning the engine from the harmonic balance with the 21mm socket need timing adjustments after thanks in advance

Hi, bro. Good job. is it possible to install the lifter in cylinder 1, without removing the camshaft in Hyundai Elantra 2012 1.8?

Do you need to preload new lifters with oil before installing them? Also any videos on bench rebuild of cylinder head?

Hello Martin I have a 98' dak 3.9 with a exhaust header bolt blown out and it sounds like a tick but not exactly rocker or lifter damage but this looks pretty straight forward I was gonna upgrade them anyway, my understanding from this video also is you don't need to mess with the timing? or camshafts? Thanks.

Is there a way to manually rotate the cam lobe to get to a compressed arm rocker on a Jeep Liberty 3.7 ?

What are some of the best company's to buy timing chain kits for a 2001 Dodge Dakota 4.7? do you know?

Hi Martin, do you need all the items you listed in your description? I see that you have 3 different gasket sets listed, just curious (I am new to working on engines). Also, do I need to get that single seal power valve lifter or can I just get the set of the lifters?

This guy has some massive balls. Look how he doesn't have anything covering the timing chain. If I did this the pennys in my pants pocket would fall into the engine.

Martin, can you explain how does the lifter actually get oil to it. I'm wondering if there are oil channels going to the lifter that could be clogged. I have terrible lifter ticking all the time. Have replaced all lifters and still the ticking. Is worse when it's very cold out (michigan) but yet after an hour of driving it's still ticking very loud. Every mechanic that has check it out (2004 dakota 4.7) has said it's lifters ticking. What do you think??

Is it necessary to put a hused head in the machine shop if I removed it from a good running 4.7 and removed the head bolts in reverse order

Could someone tell me how many roller followers are in a 4.7? I'm looking to do this repair but it is also my daily driver and want to have the parts on hand before I open 'er up

Hey Martin, what would you recommend I do if I dropped a small bolt down the oil drain within the camshaft case? Right under the rocker.

Do you have a link to the solid lifters you used

Спасибо большое. Нам в России очень помогает ваша информация.

I’m giving you a thumb up for showing how to remove the fulcrum and lifter but I wanna see the crap you go through to get to that point. i.e. All the top stuff you removed to get to that point etc.

thank you you r a good teacher slow and easy

Great video as always. Quick question if you have one bad lifter should you just replace the one or replace all of them?

My 4.7 currently sounds like a duramax when you cold start it with all the ticking, this might have just given me the boost to go change the lifters and rockers. Thank you!

Is there any risk of interference between the valves and pistons when you are popping off the rockers?

Great technique,almost every video on KZfaq shows having to remove or loosen camshaft bolts in order to accomplish this, hope I can do it this way on my 2016 Dodge Charger 3.6.

Coming back to you for your thoughts. Replaced rockers, lifters, and timing set. Still clacking like it’s the lifters... got rid of the initial start up rattle from the chain but after a second of the engine running the clacks come on until it warms up.

thank you man

i just change my rocker arm today fo my dodge grand caravan 2014, the problem the lifter it doesn't come off.

What does it mean if you turn the engine over and the rocker keeps falling out?

Can you clean a lifter to get it to work again?

will engine flush help with the ticking noise? changed the lifters still ticks.

Hey! Got a question for you. You know that star bolt on the timing chain guide that you have to remove if you want to take the heads off w/o pulling the timing chain cover? How in the heck do you get that thing off the "right" way? T30 and T40 never quite fit the right way in there, and at the junkyard I had to like... hammer a star wrench in there and do all kinds of damage to the bolt itself just to get the thing off. Is there a special size? Any advice is appreciated.

If I have to turn the 21socket on the crank bolt to remove the Rocker, do it throw the time off

Excelente, tengo que reemplazar los taquetes de mi Cherokee KK 3.7! ya se que herramientas utilizar o fabricar!

Hey Martin, my passenger side valve cover is making a ticking noise. Sounds similar to a lifter tick, however all my lifters and rockers are in place, the noise does not increase with acceleration, and I have no check engine light. I have dealt with a thrown rocker before so I know the loss of power feel but the ticking noise is apparent from the valve cover area on the passenger side. Any suggestions I can take a look at? Thank you!

Hi, I need some help. my cherokee wj 2000, has a fault. When putting it in the driver position, especially on a light climb, the transmission fails or disengages the power to the wheels. It seems to be low transmission fluid, but I left it above the level and it continues to have this fault. on the scanner does not fail. I ask, could the filter be clogged? I noticed that after hot the fault practically disappears? Thanks..