Good point. In actual fact, I did rev up engine. That would only make sense.

Originally I was going to include the lifter portion in my "newbie"
suggestions, but I've never adjusted valves with hydrualic lifters
before so I posted it as a question. I wanted to make sure I had done
the right thing and that the info was good by getting confirmation
from others.

I've only adjusted valves with solid lifters. I adjusted one of the
valves on mine a while back, but finally got down to doing the
maintenance and did them all properly.

Neil.

--
Neil Nicholson. 1981 Air Cooled Westfalia -
"Jaco"  (Bustorius)

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On 8/21/07, David Kao <dtkao0205@yahoo.com> wrote:
> Neil, I thought you did it exactly right. Why is it a question?
> It sounds like a lifter leaked out its oil. It needed to be pumped
> back up. You did what I would do.
>
> The only thing I would do differently is instead of idling for a while
> waiting it to be pumped back up I would rev the engine up and down
> to speed up the process. I found it would pump up faster by reving it
> with no load. Just my 2 cents.
>
> David
>
>
>
> --- neil N <musomuso@GMAIL.COM> wrote:
> > A question.
> >
> > One lifter is consistently noisy at start up. Play felt "soft" not
> > solid like all the others. I found that its' adjuster screw had to be
> > turned WAY in to take out play. I could see this was wrong. Even then
> > it was hard to judge if play was solid. This was with engine cold.
> >
> > To get a more accurate adjustment, I adjusted all except the soft
> > lifter, (engine cold) put noisy lifter back to it's original setting,
> > then started engine and waited for lifter to quiet down. I figured it
> > was properly (or as good as it gets) filled with oil at that point.
> > After that, when pulling the rocker back to check play, it felt more
> > "solid". I felt that this way I could adjust it more accurately.
> >
> > Was this the wrong way to do it?
> >
> > I understand the right way involves replacing the lifter! --- :)
> >
> >
> > Cheers,
> >
> > Neil.
> >
> > --
> > Neil Nicholson. 1981 Air Cooled Westfalia -
> > "Jaco"  (Bustorius)
> >
> > http://web.mac.com/tubaneil
> >
> > Please send me your Vanagon/Westfalia links!
> > http://vanagonlinks.googlepages.com/home