Excellent summary, Cornblatt. It is imperative that you use Zip ties to attach the chain to the sprocket, or you WILL be sorry. The spring action of the vac pump cam may "pull" the chain into the cavity when the sprocket comes off the cam, don't have a heart attack, that's normal. If it happens, you'll have to yank pretty hard to pull it back up to re-attach the sprocket. Follow the cam bolt procedure carefully or you will break the camshaft. Finally, the oil passage exit is located at the rear of the head, near the top, on the driver's side of the car... there is a small, hex-socket plug that is the rear of the oil galley that feeds the lifters. Remove this plug and blow compressed air into each of the 10 oil feed holes in each lifter bore. You can also poke a paper clip or other small wire into each hole to ensure they are clear.
That said, I replaced all 10 of my lifters last December. This did quiet down the racket, but did not eliminate it, which confused me greatly. A month later, the head gasket failed (visible blue smoke, compression on cyl #1 way low, oil in #1 cylinder). It turned out that the gasket had been failing for a while, and bits of gasket debris had entered the oil galley feeding the lifters. The debris had blocked oil passages to a couple of the lifters! That's why even the NEW ones were noisy!! After a new head gasket was installed, AND the oil passages were fully cleaned out, the new lifters are totally silent (I also use Mobil Delvac-1, btw.) All the photos of my 602 head gasket job are at
this link. A couple of samples are below.
