Patent ID: 7032564

Claim:
A method of making a valve deactivator for the combustion chamber valves of one bank of cylinders in an engine having hydraulic valve lash adjusters/lifters for the combustion chamber valves comprising: (a) providing a deck with a supply port and a supply pressure channel communicating therewith on one side of said deck and forming on said one side of the deck a plurality of pressure control channels each spaced adjacent said supply channel and adopted for supplying hydraulic fluid pressure to one of the valve lash adjusters/lifters; (b) disposing a valve mounting frame formed of non-metallic material on said one side of said deck and forming three valving cavities thereon with each cavity having a supply port communicating with said supply channel in said valving deck and an outlet port and communicating the outlet port of a first of said cavities with a first of said control channels, communicating the outlet port of a second of said cavities with the two other of said control channels and communicating the outlet port of the third of said cavities with two additional of said control channels; (c) disposing an electrically operated valve in each cavity and communicating an inlet of the valve with the respective supply port of the cavity and communicating an outlet of the valve with the respective outlet port of the cavity; and, (d) retaining the valve respectively in each cavity and said frame on said deck.