ATF to quiet lifters?

[Geordie]

I have heard of this method, and I've actually experienced it.

I was with my friend when he had to get emergency repairs done on the
transmission in his '84 100. The auto trans cooler sprung a leak which
caused intermingling of coolant and ATF.

Anyway, to make a long story short, we found a shop in Torono called
"Ziggy's Auto Repair" which was owned by a Polish man I believe. After
fixing up the transmission, he checked our oil level (which was low, of
course), filled it up, then grabbed some ATF and poured a bit in the
crankcase. He told us that it would reduce the noise coming from the
lifters, which was rather loud. Sure enough, the guy poured in the fluid and
the noise tapered off a bit. Who knows if this was a long lasting fix or
not. It may have lasted a day, or it may have lasted for much longer. But it
did do the trick initially.


Geordie
'82 Coupe



> A friend recommended that I use automatic transmission fluid (ATF) as a
> penetrating oil to get a tie-rod end off.  It seemed to work great.  While
> somewhat dubious of his suggestion, I did a search on the net re ATF and
> found people recommending it to silence hydraulic lifters:  drain a litre
of
> engine oil and replace it with a litre of ATF.
>
> Anyone try it on the Audi engine?
>
> Peter