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• Re: Hydro lifters (# of turn)
  Historical mailing list - ROBERT DONALDS
  Sun, 27 Jun 2004 20:56:29 -0400
  ...Now turn the lifter on its side and how does the air get out ? so if you feel the valves are not closing back...
• chronic valve tapping
  Historical mailing list - Bradley Flubacher
  Fri, 20 Apr 2001 21:48:12 -0400
  ...I don't think a lifter should be going flat every week. Is this indicative of something wrong? Bradley Flubacher State College, PA
• Re: Valve adjustment; Preliminary results.
  Historical mailing list - Chris S
  Sat, 12 Jul 2003 19:16:13 -0400
  > There is a hole in the side of each lifter ................. law of > averages always puts one hole down when you park the van overnight...
• Re: Valves/lifter adjustment; do not close fully
  Historical mailing list - Robert Donalds
  Mon, 10 Dec 2001 12:30:37 -0500
  Raul wrote >With this talk of valve adjustments; is it possible with what ever method you >use to adjust your valves, that they end...
• Re: Noisy Valve lifters
  Historical mailing list - Ben T
  Wed, 6 Feb 2013 14:43:13 -0800
  Your noisy valve lifter woke me from my nap. BenT sent from my electronic leash On Feb 6, 2013, at 2:33 PM, Jeff...
• Re: Losing valve lash just after adjustment-why?
  Historical mailing list - Tim Marciniak
  Fri, 30 Aug 2002 07:35:16 -0500
  ...I researched everything I >could find on the age old valve lifter issue including a call to Bob >at Boston Engine were I purchased...
• Re: FS Type IV High Lift cam, lifters, push rods.
  Historical mailing list - 80 Westy Pokey
  Mon, 30 Dec 2002 21:52:37 -0500
  ...FS Type IV High Lift cam, lifters, push rods. >To: vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM > >For sale Weber Solid Lifter Camshaft .297 lift, unknown duration...
• Re: Noisy Valve lifters
  Historical mailing list - MICHAEL H
  Wed, 6 Feb 2013 18:33:11 -0800
  ...Noisy Valve lifters That suggests to me that VW meant for the oil to be checked when the engine was at operating temperature, not...
• Re: Re-useable oil filter
  Historical mailing list - Tabe Johnson
  Wed, 30 Aug 2006 00:34:30 -0400
  ...How would a valve that kept the lifters from bleeding down work? It would apply oil pressure. Where does oil pressure come from? The...
• Re: Noisy Valve lifters
  Historical mailing list - Stuart MacMillan
  Tue, 5 Feb 2013 11:54:33 -0800
  ...Noisy Valve lifters Yes, I was not necessarily doubting anyone's explanation BUT rather since I paid good money for a rebuilt engine thought...
• 2liter hydraulic lifter/valve adjustment
  Historical mailing list - Puzerewski
  Mon, 4 Sep 2000 09:59:50 -0400
  Anyone have experience in adjusting the valves on a new rebuild?????????? I am convinced that they are not closing properly...thus the high heat...
• Re: Adjusting Valves 78 Air Cooled
  Historical mailing list - Stan Wilder
  Sun, 2 Feb 2003 13:26:57 -0600
  ...It had slight cold lifter noise and I made a mental note of slight clearance on the valve stem / rocker before I started adjusting...
• Re: Help... Engine troubles, rapid backfiring under load.
  Historical mailing list - Ken Wilford
  Wed, 29 Jun 2005 05:12:55 -0400
  ...hot. > Collapsed lifter(s) as valves won't hold adjustment very well. > > Please god don't tell me it's: > Burned valves, cause I...
• Re: Loud clanking sound from exhaust - pushrod unseated?
  Historical mailing list - BenT
  Tue, 27 Jul 2004 12:32:07 -0700
  ...I had > a problem with air in the lifter and the valve was about 5 turns too > tight. So, I loosened it up so...
• Re: Van wants to stall at start..but only sometimes
  Historical mailing list - Dennis Haynes
  Fri, 26 Aug 2016 17:25:18 -0400
  ...This is usually a bad ball check in the lifter. It could also be a valve that is getting stuck in the valve guide...
• Re: Clicking valves, my observations
  Historical mailing list - Mark Dorm
  Mon, 8 Jan 2001 21:24:49 -0800
  ...Clicking valves, my observations > > > > Over the last nine years my transporter averaged about two >lifter > > leak down events per year. The first time it...
• Re: Lifter noise
  Historical mailing list - x
  Wed, 21 Jul 2004 15:23:51 -0400
  Check valves clearance, or the absence of it... they must be at least 1 turn in/tight, check at 80/90F. http://www.benplace...
• Re: 2.1 lifter replacement
  Historical mailing list - Zoltan
  Fri, 5 Oct 2001 08:29:05 -0700
  ...and some times not so cold) the > lifter is "out of adjustment" --- i.e., the valve train clearances are to > large and you get...
• hydraulic lifters
  Historical mailing list - Andy
  Thu, 3 Feb 2000 23:45:49 -0800
  ...I tend to believe that my lifters adjustments are to tight. I adjusted each cylinder to TDC then adjusted each valve 1 and 1...
• Re: What if we combined the Lifter Week with Vanagon Names threads?
  Historical mailing list - Bill Witz
  Thu, 9 Jun 2005 13:05:25 -0400
  ...has the best spam protection around >> http://mail.yahoo.com Wow lifters, valve trains, names, train wreck. Think I will rename my van Burning...
• Re: interesting lifter thinking?? 1.9L still a problem child (update)
  Historical mailing list - Stan Wilder
  Tue, 16 Aug 2005 22:20:06 -0500
  ...lifter thinking?? 1.9L still a problem child (update) > > > >> Hi again > >> can a lifter or lifters over charge or open valves to much to...
• Franz The '87 Westy Lives and Breathes!!!
  Historical mailing list - Stephen Steele
  Tue, 16 Apr 2002 01:50:30 -0400
  ...Jay Snyder... > I suggest you also read Boston Bob's article on hydraulic lifters! The > valves are clearly out of adjustment and hanging open...
• 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...
• Valve confusion
  Historical mailing list - Nathaniel Poole
  Tue, 14 Nov 2006 20:50:56 -0800
  ...What this accomplishes is it pushes the valve open. Why would a lifter preset have the valves open during a compression stroke? What am...
• Re: interesting lifter thinking?? 1.9L still a problem child (update)
  Historical mailing list - Jonce Fancher
  Sun, 11 Sep 2005 20:31:26 -0400
  Well i think the lifter issue is behind me. i adjusted the valves to 0.00 clearance with MMO in the case and ran...
• 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: ticking sound from engine
  Historical mailing list
  Tue, 24 Jun 1997 19:02:08 -0400 (EDT)
  ...If one of your lifters is sleeping, one or more of the measurements will be slack. Then you will replace your valve cover gaskets...
• re: Hydr. lifters
  Historical mailing list - Shawn Wright, SMUS Network Analyst
  Fri, 22 Mar 1996 15:06:51 PDT
  When adjusting valves properly, they will lift off thier seat. You must wait 1/2 hour or so before starting engine to let lifters...
• Re: sticking lifter cure?
  Historical mailing list - tp
  Mon, 1 Sep 2003 18:28:34 +0100
  ...The problem is that the hydraulic lifters lose oil when the van has been standing unused for a while. Within 5 to 15 minutes...
• Loud clanking sound from exhaust - pushrod unseated?
  Historical mailing list - Craig Oda
  Tue, 27 Jul 2004 09:43:03 -0700
  ...Also, I adjusted the exhaust valve on cylinder 3 considerably. I had a problem with air in the lifter and the valve was about...
• lifter noise after PRT replace
  Historical mailing list - Jon Schaer
  Sat, 24 Apr 2004 14:39:53 -0400
  ...Could this be a lifter bleed problem, or the valve adjustment. Thanks, Jon Schaer Columbus, OH 1985 GL 141,000+
• FW: Valve lifter noise solution.
  Historical mailing list - jack
  Sat, 27 Feb 1999 23:22:26 -0500
  ...Valve lifter noise solution. I'm new to this list and this will be my first post. I live in Ann Arbor MI. I...
• Re: 85 1.9 L Won't Start (Rebuilt Motor)
  Historical mailing list
  Sat, 12 Jun 1999 21:15:38 EDT
  Try backing off your valve adjustment until they just touch. Not try to start the motor. I usually do this when I put a...
• Re: What's the difference in Febi and Meyle lifters?
  Historical mailing list - Kenneth Wilford
  Tue, 26 Feb 2008 09:21:50 -0500
  ...They now have a > small disc inside as the check valve. They also use a much beefier snap > ring to hold the lifter together...
• Re: Hydraulic Valve adjustment - when is "contact"?
  Historical mailing list - ROBERT DONALDS
  Thu, 7 Apr 2005 09:11:03 -0400
  ...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: Adjusting Valves
  Historical mailing list - Joel Walker
  Fri, 24 Feb 95 10:20:02 CST
  ...how come you're adjusting valves on a 2.0 liter? all the two liters i know about have hydraulic valve lifters and don...
• hyd. lifter adjustment
  Historical mailing list - Mike Blotz
  Wed, 8 Jan 2003 08:57:34 -0700
  another question for the people Getting the 2.1 back together and have a question about the lifters. doing my pretension on the valves...
• Re: Tapping sound
  Historical mailing list - Coby Smolens
  Mon, 7 Jun 1999 20:45:29 -0700
  ...panel van that had us convinced it was a lifter, then we figured "valve seat" but gave up on that idea - performance wasn't...
• Re: Aircooled lifter noise
  Historical mailing list - G. Matthew Bulley
  Sat, 26 Jan 2002 11:25:28 -0500
  ...valves are still noisy after a few miles on the road, I'd suggest a chemical treatment to free up the sticky lifters PRIOR...
• Adjusting Valves on 1.9
  Historical mailing list - John Houser
  Wed, 7 May 2003 11:27:52 EDT
  ...to adjust the valves than the way shown in the Bentley Manual? Is there a way to get each lifter on the flank side...
• Re: Why adjust valves?
  Historical mailing list
  Thu, 20 Jun 1996 11:33:59 -0700 (PDT)
  ...Wear exists all along the valve train, starting at the camshaft bearings, camshaft lobe, then the lifter face, the fit of the lifter in...
• Re: From flickering oil light to valves clacking
  Historical mailing list - Chris Szpejankowski
  Sat, 15 Aug 2015 12:37:46 -0400
  ...I used to have an issue with lifters bleeding down on the highway for a long time in one of my 1.9 Westies...
• Re: Vanagon advice needed
  Historical mailing list
  Wed, 24 Jul 1996 07:58:10 -0700
  ...is likely to be a waek hydraulic lifter (you don't need to adjust the valves on these, either!). It's hard to tell...
• Re: Valve adjustment advice
  Historical mailing list - Stuart MacMillan
  Sun, 13 Dec 2015 17:01:07 -0800
  ...The rocker has a deep cup over the rod end, and so does the lifter. I think the Bentley is just over cautious to...
• Re: Lifter question
  Historical mailing list - Mike
  Sat, 9 Aug 2008 11:34:01 -0400
  If the coffee can had oil to the tops of the lifters to keep them full and the lid was on to keep them...
• Re: Noisy Lifter - is it a lifter?
  Historical mailing list - Sam Scholten
  Fri, 13 Mar 1998 12:22:02 -0800
  ...stuck lifter, I > adjusted the valves to hydrolic specs, this noise can't be good, any > suggestions? can you remove these lifters while the...
• 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...
• valves adjusted(sorta..) now a final VERY IMPORTANT question
  Historical mailing list - gary hradek
  Mon, 21 Apr 2003 08:38:03 -0700
  ...What you are trying to achieve is to have the valve riding in the middle range of the lifter's hydralic action. If your...
• exhaust and valve noise
  Historical mailing list - Dan Erlandson
  Wed, 16 Jul 2003 21:01:59 -0400
  ...lifter on the order of how I know if it is just a sticky lifter, an air locked valve or a valve/lifter going...
• Re: Hydrolic valve adjustment?
  Historical mailing list
  Tue, 30 Jul 1996 11:19:43 -0700 (PDT)
  Sounds like you've got a collapsed lifter.If you can push with your finger on the bottom of the rocker arm and it...
• Re: Puzzling valves...
  Historical mailing list - Sam Scholten
  Thu, 8 Jan 2004 19:24:00 -0800
  ...Then there was > compression but not very good. > I was wondering if the valve lifters got pumped up > and could not release to spring...
• Re: hydraulic problem
  Historical mailing list - Vanagon Man
  Sun, 25 Nov 2001 15:01:02 -0500
  ...see a lifter that has lost its snap ring and fell apart. Maybe not though.........It could be a collapsed valve seat meaning a...
• Re: Noisy lifter
  Historical mailing list - Dennis Haynes
  Mon, 7 Oct 2002 18:46:09 -0400
  ...Noisy lifter Can the hydraulic lifters in the 2.1L motor be removed and replaced without having to replace any other valvetrain components? I...
• 139297.4 miles -> BOOM!
  Historical mailing list
  Mon, 15 Aug 94 17:50:29 PDT
  ...Loss in oil pressure, clanking sound from the right side (possibly a collapsed hydraulic lifter under the valve cover?) ... Or, possibly the engine sucked...
• Re: hydraulic lifters
  Historical mailing list - Phil Marston
  Fri, 4 Feb 2000 10:00:35 -0000
  ...I tend to believe > that my lifters adjustments are to tight. I adjusted each cylinder to TDC > then adjusted each valve 1 and 1...
• Re: valves?
  Historical mailing list - Rik Santos
  Wed, 26 May 1999 20:06:40 -0400
  ...Could it be the valves? lifters. i know there's an atf fix, but i don't know it and i won't guess...
• Re: Valve adjustment
  Historical mailing list - Bob Donalds
  Tue, 21 Dec 1999 08:47:55 -0500
  ...There has > >been no report of lifters failng because of valve adjuster lash > >(clearance) my own van has run this way for 2 years...
• Re: heads off--now some questions
  Historical mailing list - Mike Blotz
  Tue, 3 Dec 2002 13:31:33 -0700
  ...very similar to the wasser boxer valve train--meaning hyd lifters. easily bent by over tightening the valves. I rebuilt one corvair engine that...
• Re: 6 mils of lash...
  Historical mailing list - John
  Fri, 7 Jan 2000 19:15:59 -0500
  ...at times and you could (almost) hear the lifters pumping up and reducing the valve clearance to zero, one by one. After about 30...
• Re: Lifter Update
  Historical mailing list - David Beierl
  Sat, 12 Aug 2000 09:08:57 -0400
  ...snug up, but I Those lifters had air in them, so they compressed more easily than the valve spring, making the adjustment feel different...