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• Valve adjust after head job
  Historical mailing list - Craig Cowan
  Wed, 2 Oct 2013 15:17:10 -0400
  ...The lifters seem firm, pushrods are straight. Now what? Set to tdc #1 and adjust valves in just until contacting? Then turn main pulley...
• Lifter noise
  Historical mailing list - Keith Patterson
  Wed, 21 Jul 2004 09:27:13 -0700
  ...then turn it off, the next time I start it my lifters make a horrible sound. I assume they are losing there pressurization. If...
• Re: Mystic Oil
  Historical mailing list - neil n
  Sun, 26 Jun 2011 14:03:08 -0700
  ...Thinner oil will aid in pumping up that collapsed > lifter more quickly - thicker oil is harder to get through the orifice into > the lifter...
• Re: Questions about Bent Pushrods and Repair
  Historical mailing list - Ken Lewis
  Tue, 11 Nov 2003 08:56:34 -0500
  ...You should feel the lifter move up and down. If it doesn't then the lifter stuck in the outward position and the piston...
• Re: Vanagon
  Historical mailing list - Benny boy
  Mon, 2 May 2005 20:49:57 -0400
  ...Lasy lifter will do that... do that when the engine is cold...remove valve cover and push on the rocker (where the pushrod sit...
• Re: tap tap tap!! ??
  Historical mailing list - John Rodgers
  Sat, 19 Jul 2003 13:19:22 -0500
  This is in all likelyhood the infamous "Vanagon Lifter Syndrome". Not fatal, but frustrating and aggravating. The lifter loses its prime, and goes flat...
• Re: Noisy Lifter - to replace or not?
  Historical mailing list - Paul Borghese
  Thu, 12 Mar 1998 17:04:50 -0700
  I recently bought an 85 Vanagon that had a persistant noisy lifter problem. People could hear me driving down the street blocks away. In...
• Fwd: Slow pump up lifters any harm?
  Historical mailing list - Spencer Allen
  Thu, 6 Aug 2015 09:24:18 -0400
  ...Slow pump up lifters any harm? The lifters on my 85 1.9 Westy seem to take longer to pump up lately. The chatter...
• clarify .006 on lifters
  Historical mailing list - Myron Lind
  Tue, 8 Jan 2002 23:55:31 -0800
  Hello list, and hopefully(?) Boston Bob, Just re-read Boston Bob's lifter adjustment procedure. He says it's good to adjust to .006...
• Vanagon engine noise - collapsed lifter?
  Historical mailing list - Todd Last
  Wed, 30 Nov 2011 10:22:11 -0800
  ...Is this a collapsed lifter? I made a short video here: <http://www.flipshare.com/login.aspx?nRecipient=N0I5MzFDMkItQzNGNy00RjVELUE4MDAtNjdFODNEOTREMjQy&nFrame=RDBBNUE5QkYtQTAwRS00N0Y3LThDNkMtM0UzNDU5OTZCOEQx&nMethod=ZW1haWw=&nMedia...
• Re: 83 wasserboxer - valve adjustment advice
  Historical mailing list - Kent Christensen
  Sat, 20 Feb 1999 09:51:44 -0700
  ...There is only initial adjustment, the purpose/benefit of hydraulic lifters being that periodic adjustment is not required. This subject is covered very completely...
• Re: Rebuild sluething Qs, part 1 of ???
  Historical mailing list - Ken Lewis
  Mon, 17 Mar 2003 08:34:26 -0500
  Damon; Personally; I would replace the cam and lifters regardless. Lifters are about $8 a piece and you can usually find a cam for...
• Ultimate solution for my noisey lifters
  Historical mailing list - Bradley Flubacher
  Fri, 25 Jul 2003 20:26:08 -0400
  ...My oil was diluted by the fuel making the lifters leak down ALL the time. I corrected the mixture, now they never go flat...
• Re: Lifter adjustment VOODOO
  Historical mailing list - Robert Fisher
  Wed, 30 Apr 2008 17:09:01 -0700
  ...a plug for anyone wondering about all this LONG talked about > lifter stuff to check out the FAQ under technical on www.type2.com...
• Re: Knocking engine? or hyd lifters? how to tell?
  Historical mailing list - Bulley
  Wed, 2 Aug 2000 18:13:17 -0400
  ...In my experience, even the filthiest lifters will EVENTUALLY pump up after 10-15 minutes of driving. Adjust your valves per Bentley, Haynes, or...
• Re: '85 1.9L Lifter Knocking
  Historical mailing list - John Rodgers
  Thu, 30 Nov 2000 21:01:25 -0600
  ...After sitting for a few days one lifter would loose it's prime and go flat. On startup, it would clatter like the very...
• Re: Hydraulic Lifter Adjustments
  Historical mailing list - David Kao
  Thu, 28 Jun 2007 08:00:51 -0700
  Setting lifter adjustment to 0 turn the lifter will not be able to self adjust to take up the valve clearance when the valve...
• Re: Soft lifters (was: clarify .006 on lifters)
  Historical mailing list - Adam Puzerewski
  Wed, 9 Jan 2002 14:24:46 -0500
  ...Soft lifters (was: clarify .006 on lifters) So, what does it mean if you have a lifter or two that are "soft?" I think...
• Re: noisy lifter: Marvel mystery oil??
  Historical mailing list - Sam Walters
  Tue, 19 Jul 2005 14:32:20 -0400
  ...On both my 84 and my current 85, I never had clattering lifters unless they had been sitting quite some time. Only took 3...
• Re: Hydraulic Valve adjustment - when is "contact"?
  Historical mailing list - ROBERT DONALDS
  Thu, 7 Apr 2005 09:11:03 -0400
  Damon backing off the lifters in a used running engine would work the lifters would fill with oil if they are in good condition...
• Re: noisy hydraulic lifter? not going away with oil change, marvel mystery additive.
  Historical mailing list - Scott Daniel - Shazam
  Sat, 21 Jul 2007 14:31:17 -0700
  ...noisy hydraulic lifter? not going away with oil change, marvel mystery additive. You will have to remove the pushrod tube in order to take...
• Re: Noisy Lifter - to replace or not?
  Historical mailing list - John H. Rodgers
  Wed, 11 Mar 1998 09:03:11 -0500
  ...Noisy Lifter - to replace or not? Try about a quart of ATF or of Marvel Mystery Oil, or some Redline Lifter Freer-upper in...
• Re: Knocking engine? or hyd lifters? how to tell?
  Historical mailing list - Bulley
  Wed, 2 Aug 2000 19:33:23 -0400
  ...Knocking engine? or hyd lifters? how to tell? Bulley wrote: Lifters, however don't usually make a knocking sound...more like a TACK, > TACK...
• Re: loud valve ticking
  Historical mailing list - G.M.Bulley
  Thu, 16 Jan 2003 19:18:12 -0500
  Typical VW flat four lifter thing. Type 4's do it too. When the cam is left pressing against a lifter that has a...
• Re: Lifter adjustment... How can I tell if they are really hydraulics?
  Historical mailing list - Mike S
  Mon, 23 Mar 2009 19:42:02 -0400
  ...the rocker and remove the pushrod, you can fish out >the lifter with a magnetic pickup tool. Can this be done without removing the...
• Re: Solid lifter conversion.
  Historical mailing list - Horace K. Sawyer
  Sun, 11 May 2003 16:51:30 -0400
  ...TV screens I'd say just cut a length of >broom stick and use it for a lifter. lol Stan -- a big Amen, brotha.
• Re: Adjusting Valves 78 Air Cooled
  Historical mailing list - Dennis Haynes
  Sat, 1 Feb 2003 00:22:38 -0500
  ...In fact, it is the same lifter used up to the '91 Vanagons. I think '76 was the only year to get solid lifters...
• Re: Heads rebuilt: No compression
  Historical mailing list - Stephen Steele
  Fri, 12 Apr 2002 18:27:00 -0400
  ...A listee p-mailed me about my no compression.... > Hi there, > > It sounds like your lifters are pumped up on the cylinders with the...
• Re: lifter removal
  Historical mailing list - Stan Wilder
  Tue, 29 Jan 2002 10:40:11 -0600
  ...Jones" <jones@COYOTE.COLORADO.EDU> writes: > Stan Wilder wrote: > > >>Lifter remover: A coat hanger wire with a little hook on the end. > Put the...
• Re: Lifter noise
  Historical mailing list - Jason Pufahl
  Thu, 22 Jul 2004 07:53:55 -0400
  ...VANAGON.COM> Sent: Wednesday, July 21, 2004 12:27 PM Subject: Lifter noise I've got an 87 westy with a funny problem. If...
• Re: Valves lifter knocking
  Historical mailing list - Jim Arnott
  Fri, 15 Jan 1999 08:55:32 -0800
  ...The lifters haven't made a sound since. No new leaks etc. I run 10W-40 Valvoline year round. Change at 3k. Like I...
• New lifter valve adjustment schedule?
  Historical mailing list - Michael Elliott
  Sun, 5 Jun 2005 21:33:40 -0500
  Is this in the Bentley? I had the lads at the local shop drop in new hydraulic lifters all 'round when the engine was...
• Why are the lifters so hard?
  Historical mailing list - Zoltan Kuthy
  Sat, 5 Apr 2008 11:54:37 -0700
  I must have done something when I was working on the engine, because the lifters got pumped up so hard, I had to adjust...
• Re: Aircooled Lifter Replacement
  Historical mailing list - Stan Wilder
  Fri, 4 Jan 2002 22:28:25 -0600
  ...Keep your old lifters in proper order (you may decide to put them back in). Set one of the old lifters on a very...
• lifter noise?
  Historical mailing list - Jason Willenbrock
  Sat, 6 Sep 2003 14:12:25 -0400
  ...used to lifter noise from my 90 when it has not been&nbsp;ran in awhile, however on my 90 the lifter noise is...
• Re: Post winter storage sticky valve noise
  Historical mailing list - Stuart MacMillan
  Sat, 11 Apr 2015 11:33:37 -0700
  ...Stuck lifters are a fact of life in old WBX engines. A combination of low oil pressure, worn lifter guides, and clogged lifter check...
• 1.9L white smoke
  Historical mailing list - Bradley Flubacher
  Wed, 7 Mar 2001 22:13:52 -0500
  Here's the background- I was driving home one day with a lifter that started tapping the day before. The engine runs a bit...
• Re: vanagon Digest - 26 Apr 2007 to 27 Apr 2007 - Special issue (#2007-436)
  Historical mailing list - Jake Beaulieu
  Fri, 27 Apr 2007 15:34:04 -0400
  ...I didn't realize "lash" was specific to solid lifters. Sorry for the confusion. I do have hydraulic lifters. I think I will go...
• oil and lifter clacking
  Historical mailing list - Mark Watts
  Mon, 19 Jun 2000 11:01:24 EDT
  ...As I have pulled it in and out of the garage I noticed that the lifter were starting to make a terrible racket. Hmmm...
• Re: was: Valve Adjustment NOW: Hydraulic
  Historical mailing list - Tim McDermott
  Thu, 10 Jun 1999 21:04:29 -0400
  ...These are not great in number. > >Mark Drillock > >Mark McCulley wrote: >> >> All Vanagon engines, both air-cooled and waterboxers, have hydraulic valve >> lifters. >> Tim...
• Re: Help... Engine troubles, rapid backfiring under load.
  Historical mailing list - Ken Wilford
  Wed, 29 Jun 2005 05:12:55 -0400
  I would check your lifters. There were some bad ones going around a couple of years ago (Italian) that didn't have a good...
• Re: Oil Level Lifters With Mann W 719/30 Oil Filter
  Historical mailing list - Neil N
  Sun, 1 Mar 2015 09:21:10 -0800
  ...What Vanagons > like to do is have lifter that will clack away for minutes or even miles. > These are likely lifter with a ball...
• 1.9 liter camshaft checking and more
  Historical mailing list - Robert Donalds
  Thu, 27 Sep 2001 21:18:00 -0400
  ...The 2.1 WBX cam intake lift at the lifter is .326 ths and the exhaust lift at the lifter is .315 ths. The...
• Re: Post winter storage sticky valve noise
  Historical mailing list - george jannini
  Sat, 11 Apr 2015 15:06:41 -0400
  My previous WBX experience with lifter noise was that switching to Mobil1 15W50 made it go away forever. (162,000 miles in all) before...
• Re: hyd. lifter adjustment
  Historical mailing list - Brian Spisak
  Wed, 8 Jan 2003 09:10:21 -0800
  Hydraulic lifters remove the lash by design, thus the two turns to give them room to do their work. Set per Bentley, then check...
• Re: lifter leakdown (was oil change)
  Historical mailing list - Dan R. Hall
  Wed, 23 Jul 2003 22:11:52 -0500
  My '86 Westy Weekender has 50,000 miles on a VW of Canada rebuild and sporadically exhibits the EXACT same problem with lifter noise...
• Pushrod STUCK? 87 GL
  Historical mailing list - James B. Morris
  Mon, 31 Aug 1998 16:29:25 -0500
  ...Apparently a lifter is damaged as well as a pushrod, because there was a clip (that looks like the retainer for the lifter) in...
• Type 1 hydraulic lifter needed
  Historical mailing list
  Thu, 13 Jun 1996 21:00:32 -0700
  ...He has seven, yes, counted them twice, seven CB Performance hydraulic lifters. Seven will not quite do it. CB Performance discontinued them about a...
• Re: slow oil pressure
  Historical mailing list
  Tue, 14 Dec 1999 05:44:12 EST
  Sounds like you are getting lifter noise at start up. Not uncommon, but since your motor is brand new, I would suggest readjusting your...
• Re: Mystic Oil
  Historical mailing list - Jake de Villiers
  Sun, 26 Jun 2011 14:33:15 -0700
  ...Thinner oil will aid in pumping up that collapsed > > lifter more quickly - thicker oil is harder to get through the orifice > into > > the lifter...
• Re: Vanagon engine noise - collapsed lifter?
  Historical mailing list - Daniel Rotblatt
  Thu, 1 Dec 2011 00:05:25 -0800
  ...I figured it was the lifter from descriptions on the list, but your video and others responses eases my fears. Dan Los Angeles, CA...
• Heads, lifters, the usual..
  Historical mailing list - Randy Huyck
  Sat, 4 May 2002 13:31:15 -0700
  ...I think it's very, very likely this is the noisy lifter, so I bought a new lifter to replace it while I have...
• Lifter noise
  Historical mailing list - ERIC ZENO
  Thu, 15 Aug 1996 07:33:40 -0400 (EDT)
  ...Seamus, Assuming the noise is a - LIfter... Drive it. Change the oil and drive it. Change the oil and drive it. Get it good...
• Re: Clicking valves, my observations
  Historical mailing list - Robert Donalds
  Tue, 9 Jan 2001 21:00:01 -0500
  ...may however contribute to the lifters pumping down on the highway one way to reduce gumming up the lifters is to add marvel mystery...
• Re: Hydro lifters (# of turn)
  Historical mailing list - The corruptor
  Fri, 25 Jun 2004 02:25:24 -0400
  ...intelligent motor company don't use hydro lifter, too much of a risk............
• Re: Oil pressure light comes on after about 7 minutes.
  Historical mailing list - David Beierl
  Sun, 12 Dec 2010 23:29:31 -0500
  ...The lifter will then bleed down over >time. As the engine starts it may become air bound and air alone will not >pump past...
• Hydraulic valve lifters?
  Historical mailing list - Andy Morse
  Sat, 22 Aug 2009 11:33:43 -0400
  ...What is the gap supposed to be for my valves ijtake and exhaust and do I have hydraulic lifters? I don't even know...
• Sticking Lifters
  Historical mailing list
  Sat, 6 Jul 1996 22:30:05 -0400
  Need Help, I have an '85 Vanagon and the lifters occasionally stick at start-up. Typically they will free up before you get out...
• Re: clickin lifters
  Historical mailing list - Stan Wilder
  Fri, 13 Jun 2003 16:30:41 -0700
  ...Clip ---------------------- If you had a hole in your side like a lifter you'd probably leak down overnight too. Stan Wilder ________________________________________________________________ The best thing...
• Re: Any advice on bleeding lifters (2.1)
  Historical mailing list - Jake de Villiers
  Wed, 6 Aug 2008 19:26:59 -0700
  ...Any advice on bleeding lifters (2.1) > >> > >> > >> Bentley offers the usual rain dance for getting oil in the lifters. > Mine > >>> have been sitting for...