> Get in it--and run the hell out of it--you just have a collapsed lifter
> from sitting--it'll pump back up, and everything will be OK---

> Ok let's hear the con's, on this verdict--

That's exactly what I do on the rare occasion a lifter fails to pump up.  I
wait for the engine to warm up first, then I leave it in 2nd and cruise at
near redline until she's quiet.  Since I started running Mobil 1 15W50 oil,
the lifters have been behaving much better.

Chris.