Bad news tonight

[71Dragtruck]

Well you know that sick feeling you get when things are really bad? I have that, truck started to run bad on me, sounded like a ignition problem. Went through everything with no luck, just got worse. Well then I could hear a noisy lifter and thought maybe one of my polylocks came loose, so I pulled a valve cover. This is where my stomach sank , one of the connector link tabs on my roller lifters came loose, and the bar came off. Two lifters spun sideways and ate a lobe off my roller cam $$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$. I took off the intake and yes cam is toast, can't even get the lifter out the top, it didn't even make a funny noise, just ate the cam like a bread stick. The whole engine has to be tore down and gone through, I could just die . Likely going to be over $1000.00 time I'm done. Well thank's for the shoulder, I have to go tell the kids that they are going on a strick diet.