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Re: Hydraulic lifters
Historical mailing list - Todd Last
Sun, 8 Sep 2024 00:23:37 -0700
...I'm sure it's valve lifters since my playing with valve adjustment effects the sound. But my playing does not resolve it. I...
Re: Hydraulic valve lifter noise on '85 GL
Historical mailing list - Brent Christensen
Thu, 8 Apr 1999 17:19:43 -0700
...Hydraulic valve lifter noise on '85 GL
Re: 2.1l vacuum readings?
Historical mailing list - Bob Stevens
Thu, 21 May 2009 22:27:08 -0600
...9. *Make sure that the cam and lifters are matched, (solid/solid, hydraulic/hydraulic, roller hydraulic/roller hydraulic, solid roller/solid roller), etc. Strange...
Re: Adjusting Valves
Historical mailing list
Fri, 24 Feb 1995 12:27:28 -0400
...Your 2.0l has hydraulic lifters no?, if so, what you set is really an initial best position, the lifters will handle the 'adjustment...
Re: valve lash adjustment question
Historical mailing list - Zoltan
Fri, 20 Oct 2006 10:40:00 -0700
...valve lash adjustment question > Here is some information that will be of much use in your adjustments. > > http://www.ratwell.com/technical/HydraulicLifters.html...
Re: Hydraulic Valve adjustment - when is "contact"?
Historical mailing list - Stan Wilder
Wed, 6 Apr 2005 16:32:05 -0500
...Hydraulic Valve adjustment - when is "contact"? > Quick lifter question, just to make sure i understand > them correctly - if you take off all the pre...
Re: Bug tune up - No vanagon
Historical mailing list - Per Lindgren
Fri, 25 Feb 2000 02:08:40 +0100
...know if it has hydraulic lifters that year, but if > it doesn't you will need to adjust the valves every 30K I think...
Re: Transporter/Vanagon 1600 AirCooled.
Historical mailing list
Fri, 15 Dec 95 13:07:17 +0100
...The filtercase is of poor quality according to them, it has 8mm oilgalleys (with hydraulic lifters ?!), only one oilpressure relief valve and suffered sealing...
Re: Tight valves!
Historical mailing list - Dennis Haynes
Thu, 14 Jun 2001 08:46:35 -0400
Hydraulic lifters should have no play. Proper adjustment is touch, then two turns in. Wait an hour before starting engine so lifters can bleed...
Re: 82 with hot start problem (long saga)
Historical mailing list - Mark Ingalls
Wed, 5 Dec 2001 22:55:09 -0600
...Oddly enough he found out the VW hydraulic lifters don't always work like they should, they sometimes hold a valve open. His solution...
Re: Hydraulic Lifter Adjustments
Historical mailing list - vanagonvw
Thu, 28 Jun 2007 15:09:12 -0600
...Oil in the lifter gets leaked out > and self-adjusts. The valves will still seat on the seats. The self-adjustment > may take a...
Lifter settings 83 Aircooled
Historical mailing list - Stan Wilder
Wed, 20 Jun 2001 06:28:03 -0500
I've been in a general off list discussion about the proper settings for the hydraulic lifters on my 83 Aircooled 2000 cc TypeIV...
Re: Valve adjustment
Historical mailing list - Shortlidge D Joel
Mon, 20 Dec 1999 20:09:00 -0500
...hydraulic lifters with the valves adjusted to .006ths clearance. >the reason for this is that when the new engines warms up with the >valves...
Re: Unkown Engine #GD000861
Historical mailing list - The Bus Depot
Thu, 4 May 2000 10:32:03 -0400
GD would indicate a '76-77 2-liter solid lifter engine. Therefore it will need periodic valve adjustments unless someone converted it to Hydraulic...
Re: Hydraulic Lifter Adjustments
Historical mailing list - David Kao
Thu, 28 Jun 2007 08:37:12 -0700
...The valve springs are far stronger than the little springs inside the lifters. The lifters are the ones get pushed down. Oil in the...
Vanagon lifter noise.
Historical mailing list - Stan Wilder
Sun, 21 Apr 2002 22:50:30 -0500
...The valve spring tension helps in pressing the oil out of the lifters but if the check valve seats very good it does not...
Re: Hydraulic lifters
Historical mailing list - Rick Cooper
Mon, 9 Sep 2024 09:38:44 -0700
...I'm sure it's valve lifters since my playing with valve adjustment effects the sound. But my playing does not resolve it. > >>> > >>> I...
Re: Why are the lifters so hard?
Historical mailing list - Zoltan Kuthy
Fri, 11 Apr 2008 14:11:56 -0700
...I suppose this risks trapping air in the lifters resulting in the > performance problems Bob refers to in his "history of hydraulic lifters" > article...
Re: sticking lifter cure?
Historical mailing list - John Rodgers
Fri, 29 Aug 2003 07:22:01 -0500
Andy, the ticking is the famous (infamous?) Vanagon Lifter Syndrome. 1) Cause: hydraulic lifter leakdown. 2) How it works: The lifter is fed oil...
Re: 6 mils of lash...
Historical mailing list - Bob Donalds
Sun, 9 Jan 2000 09:35:09 -0500
...half a pump just doesnt do it in other words the valve inside the lifter needs the full travel of the lifters internal piston...
Re: 85 1.9 L Won't Start (Rebuilt Motor)
Historical mailing list - Peter Zendzian
Sat, 12 Jun 1999 20:27:45 -1000
...Then readjust the lifters to One full 360 degree turn. Should be good >to go after this. These hydraulic lifters can be tricky. > >Bought...
Re: Hydraulic Lifter Week
Historical mailing list - tabe johnson
Wed, 8 Jun 2005 00:06:41 -0400
...Hydraulic Lifter Week > >Tabe, > >What oil are you running? The one time I ran regular dino oil (Castrol 20w50) I got >terrible lifter noise...
Re: Why are the lifters so hard?
Historical mailing list - Allan Streib
Sat, 5 Apr 2008 15:25:25 -0400
...The adjusters must have been improperly set, if > the lifters pumped up to the point where the valves were unable to > fully seat. Now...
Re: ticking engine / valve adjustment?
Historical mailing list - John Rodgers
Tue, 29 Oct 2002 21:18:13 -0600
...Nothing else seems to work when you start haveing these noisy valve problems. The leak down of the hydraulic lifter is the result of...
2.1 questions
Historical mailing list - Jim Cochran
Thu, 9 Jul 2009 22:10:37 +0000
...or could it have been a sticky hydraulic lifter holding open the intake valve and sucking oil in? or something else? Should I check...
Re: Update: hard start, for 2 years!
Historical mailing list - David Johnson
Mon, 30 Apr 2007 11:18:55 -0600
> > I checked the lifters and the valves had zero clearance at TDC and > stone > cold. However, I was still able to spin the pushrods...
Re: 6 mils of lash...
Historical mailing list - David Beierl
Sat, 8 Jan 2000 04:31:57 -0500
At 02:53 1/8/00 , John wrote: >David, > > How can something with the precise tolerances of a hydraulic lifter >produce such adverse & varying...
Re: Oil Filter
Historical mailing list - The Bus Depot
Fri, 23 Mar 2012 22:55:00 -0400
...and quickly > leading to the infamous Wasserboxer valve lifter/clatter syndrome - > i.e., flat hydraulic lifter. > > Crappy filters you don't want, for sure...
Re: noisy hydraulic lifter? not going away with oil change, marvel mystery additive.
Historical mailing list - David Kao
Sat, 21 Jul 2007 13:46:02 -0700
...the subject line. > > The Big Green Book says the hydraulic section of the pushrod/lifter assy can > be removed with engine not removed and...
Re: Valve Clatter? Bardahl ???
Historical mailing list
Mon, 20 Nov 1995 12:11:41 -0400
...It's a sticking hydraulic lifter, or more likely slightly collapsed. When you accelerate the loads on the valve train increase, due to inertia...
Re: Hydraulic Lifter Week
Historical mailing list - Dennis Haynes
Tue, 7 Jun 2005 06:16:18 -0400
...Hydraulic Lifter Week > > I think lifters are a timely subject because they haven't > been covered super well, at least in the past five...
Hydraulic Lifter Week
Historical mailing list - tabe johnson
Mon, 6 Jun 2005 21:44:09 -0400
I think lifters are a timely subject because they haven't been covered super well, at least in the past five years of archive...
Re: Adjusting Valves 78 Air Cooled
Historical mailing list - Stan Wilder
Fri, 31 Jan 2003 22:57:26 -0600
...Adjusting Valves 78 Air Cooled > > Subject: 1987 Bay, with type IV air-cooled FI engine, solid > lifters. > Question: Valve setting .006 do these things...
Re: hydrolic lifter adjustment
Historical mailing list - Stan Wilder
Thu, 12 Jul 2001 19:56:35 -0500
...I posted my inquiry to the list about hydraulic lifter adjustment and experienced typeIV rebuilders and long time owners suggested that I choose a...
Adjusting Valves on '77
Historical mailing list
Thu, 04 May 1995 13:36:41 -0400 (EDT)
Greetings Volks, My '77 does not have hydraulic lifters (I think they started in '78) so it's time to adjust the valves. I...
Re: '78 Hydraulic Lifter Reassembly
Historical mailing list
Sun, 19 May 1996 09:48:41 -0400
I'm removing the lifters on my '78 while the engine is out for head work and new rings, rod bearings etc. One was...
Re: interesting lifter thinking?? 1.9L still a problem child (update)
Historical mailing list - Jeffrey Schwaia
Mon, 12 Sep 2005 11:22:54 -0700
...The valves > remained open even when "closed" and this collapsed 2 of the lifters for > good.The lifters were gunked up before hand, but...
Re: Aircooled hydrolic lifter problems
Historical mailing list - Bob Donalds
Tue, 14 Sep 1999 08:03:22 -0400
...test lifters pry on the rocker with a screw driver to see if its time to preload I set up all my hydraulic long...
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: Shaft and compression
Historical mailing list - Bob Donalds
Fri, 10 Dec 1999 07:14:38 -0500
...this could be a low reading gauge but try treating the lifters as if they where non hydraulic give them .006 ths clearance. run...
Hydraulic Lifter Lore Is True!
Historical mailing list - Jay L Snyder
Wed, 22 Aug 2001 10:29:41 -0400
...I replaced this lifter, and eventually all 8 lifters, when the valve adjustment troubles began. I read Boston Bob's write-up and concluded...
Post Headgasket-Job "Chuuuuk"
Historical mailing list - Joe L.
Wed, 29 Mar 2000 12:26:43 -0500
...This would have the effect of making that hydraulic lifter a solid lifter incapable of adjusting itself. If this occurred then the valve is...
Re: Lifter adjustment VOODOO
Historical mailing list - John Anderson
Wed, 30 Apr 2008 15:50:32 -0700
...It details fairly obviously that quibbling over 1/2 a turn on hydraulic lifters may or may not be nonsense and profers a few...
Re: Help Vanagon stuck in Chico, CA
Historical mailing list
Mon, 18 Mar 2002 13:43:16 EST
...One or more of your push rods is not centered in the hydraulic lifters properly. This is holding your valves open to the point...
Re: '86 Valve job question - details
Historical mailing list - Joe L.
Tue, 10 Aug 1999 10:23:30 -0400
I am no mechanic either but the first thing that comes to mind is a leaky hydraulic lifter. If you leave a Vanagon parked...
Re: Noisy lifter
Historical mailing list - Stan Wilder
Mon, 7 Oct 2002 13:28:24 -0500
...writes: > Can the hydraulic lifters in the 2.1L motor be removed and replaced > without having to replace any other valvetrain components? > I seem...
Re: hydraulic lifter adjustment questions (sorry)
Historical mailing list - Scott Daniel - Turbovans
Tue, 22 May 2012 16:35:10 -0700
...the valve .. and next bit of turning will be either quite firm. or pretty soft. if it's soft .it means the lifter is...
Re: From flickering oil light to valves clacking
Historical mailing list - Chris Szpejankowski
Sat, 15 Aug 2015 12:37:46 -0400
...Like the noise when the valves have temporarily lost > hydraulic pressure. > > There was no noticeable power loss, just noisy and disconcerting. > > Does anyone have...
Loud metallic knock from engine??????
Historical mailing list - gary hradek
Wed, 12 Jul 2006 11:23:26 -0700
...Sound to me like a stuck hydraulic lifter, or a stuck valve.............. Any good suggestions on a quick diagnosis and fix? It is not...
Re: Boston Bob & Bentley, WOW.
Historical mailing list - Bob Donalds
Tue, 16 May 2000 09:48:18 -0400
...It may be that the air in the lifters expands when the engine warms up and keeps the valves from closing. when the valve...
Re-Adjusted Valves Again
Historical mailing list - Jay L Snyder
Mon, 15 Oct 2001 16:00:26 -0400
...My only complaint was slight valve train noise, kind of like an OHC engine without hydraulic lifters. So I decided to go back over...
Re: 87 rebuild update
Historical mailing list - Paul B.
Tue, 14 Jul 1998 19:43:28 -0400
...Why would a misadjust valve cause an oil light to flash? Your hydraulic lifters should compensate if the adjustment is not too far off...
Re: Hard starting when cold????
Historical mailing list - Karl Batzler
Sun, 24 Jan 1999 06:54:46 -0800
...with the oil so cold, the >hydraulic lifters might be shrunk,and not opening the valves >enough (like a weak oil pump would also...
Re: valve lash adjustment question
Historical mailing list - Dennis Haynes
Fri, 20 Oct 2006 17:52:11 +0000
...or more bad lifters. Dennis ----- Original Message ----- From: roger sisler Date: Friday, October 20, 2006 11:33 am Subject: valve lash adjustment question To...
Re: WBX throwing rods?
Historical mailing list - JM/CO
Sat, 19 Oct 2002 22:26:54 -0400
If this is REALLY a noisy lifter, first of all, they are hydraulic, and not adjustable. Secondly, chances are good that if you take...
Re: New owner of 91 Westy -- sticky valve
Historical mailing list - Mark Ingalls
Thu, 5 Sep 2002 19:22:13 -0500
...I wouldn't have know a person could run hydraulic lifters at .006 clearance if it weren't for Boston Bob, etc. Am I...
Re: Valve adjustment
Historical mailing list - Bob Donalds
Tue, 21 Dec 1999 08:47:55 -0500
...hydraulic lifters with the valves adjusted to .006ths clearance. > >the reason for this is that when the new engines warms up with the > >valves...
Re: How do I get this EGR filter on??? Fixed! But.....
Historical mailing list - Stan Wilder
Thu, 17 Apr 2003 23:22:47 -0500
...Us air cooled guys only need to adjust the valves once when we install the engine, new fangled hydraulic lifters I hear. Stan ________________________________________________________________ The...
Re: lifter chatter any concerns?
Historical mailing list - Stuart MacMillan
Thu, 2 Jul 2015 18:18:44 -0700
Hydraulic lifter bleed down. Usually only one lifter if a cam lobe has that valve fully open when the engine is shut down. They...
Re: Noisy lifter update
Historical mailing list - Dennis Haynes
Wed, 15 Sep 2004 23:01:06 -0400
...The remaining lifters will still be forced to bleed down slightly. It also defeats some of the purpose of hydraulic lifters. If you have...