changing lifters...

[urquattro]

Total BS!  That's the whole reason for the hydraulic lifters ... they
automatically adjust for the distance between the valve stem and cam!

Steve Buchholz
San Jose, CA (USA)
>
> My 200tq 89 has terrible noise from lifters (BTW, I use syntetic 5-50).
> I bought lifters and was going to do change them myself. Talking to my
> michanic (good mechanic but doesn't have experience with Audis) I
> mentioned my plans. He said that I might need to measure space for every
> valve and adjust each lifter with shims. I found a lot of mail in
> archive about lifters but I did not see somebody mentioned such
> adjustment. Is it really needed?