Brian,
You can check out "sounds of vanagons" in
Technical info on my website:
http://www.geocities.com/harald_nancy/
It might help a little. I've used Marvel Mystery Oil
sometimes to clean the lifters. Sometimes I add half a quart MM oil, drive
the vanagon a bit, and do a oil change.
Harald
'90 westy

----- Original Message -----
From: "Brian Asbury" <asbury@telepak.net>
To: <vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM>
Sent: Monday, April 30, 2001 9:28 PM
Subject: Re: do you have noisy lifters? Maybe I do???

> I think we have all heard the old expression, the only dumb question is
the
> one not asked...
>
> What exactly are "noisy lifters" and what does it sound like? My van makes
> all kinds of strange noises on startup that I'm trying to identify one by
> one.
>
> Brian
>
> >
> > Then try the swepco 502 oil improver, you can hear it work within
> > minutes of
> > adding it to your oil.
> >
> > tip of the day from
> >
> > Malibu Tony 85 westy 6 degrees BTDC   42 degrees full advance     new hp
> > unknown
>
>