Cool story about chasing the cow with the Ford truck.
Personally I believe the 360 just got tired and needed a rest. You probably could have continued the chase longer if the truck had the 390 FE option instead!....LOL
Seriously, folks are afraid of solid lifter set-ups and they shouldn't be. The Dodge slant 6 engines were all solid flat tappet to around 1978, and I never knew anyone who even knew that or did the periodical valve adjustments on them.
Ford also had a solid flat tappet V-6 around for a few years, in the little Bronco's back in the 1980's. They never needed any tending to either and pretty much a bulletproof design.
I've been running HIPPO solid rollers set at .005" lash on my Old Faithful cam over 10 years now, with only 4 adjustments and two of those wouldn't have been needed if I had used better rocker arms in the build.....FWIW......
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