All,

I installed a remanufactured 2.6l engine in my truck last December. It developed a noisy lifter shortly after install so I called and received the necessary parts. Tonight, I took off the valve cover to look at how hard it is to change a lifter..and found a few problems. I know HTML is disabled but I think you can cut/paste the following link to see the pictures:

http://digitalpics00.no-ip.org/~halatos/Engine%20photos/

The bolt backing out I can deal with. But the cracked bearing cap has me concerned. What is the opinion of some of the other folks here? Is this going to turn into a pull/replace head job?

Chris