There have been a few posts over the years recommending auto trans fluid
and/or Marvel Mystery Oil...

As I remember, I put a quart of ATF in the engine oil... maybe I drained out
a quart of the old first...

Le the engine idle and went around the blocks a couple of times... maybe 1/2
to 1 hour run time... light duty work on the engine...

Then I changed the oil and put in 1/2 qt of MMO... ran that for a few days
to a week... light duty; no heavy working of the engine....

That took car of the lifter noise...
Then changed oil back to my regular 20 50
Bill
----- Original Message -----
From: "John Gladu" <jgladu@bcm.tmc.edu>
To: <vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM>
Sent: Wednesday, August 23, 2000 12:46 PM
Subject: lifter problem...

> Any hints on how to get a lifter to work again?
> I changed the oil and filter and got one of the two "tappers" working.
>
> This is on our '90, which has been sitting for most of the summer...
>
> bcnu - Grungy
> '60 dddPanel '69 Bug '90 Vanagon '93 Eurovan '00 Audi A6 Avant
> grungy@mindless.com          opinions are just that.obviously.
>