Re: Source for lifters/valves?

[Eric Glanz - Unix Support <UCSEDG@uwplatt.edu>]

>I've got basically the same car as Dan, and this isn't injector noise...people
>walking by the car look at it and go "Wow...that doesn't sound good."  It's
>not a ticking....but more of a "clack, clack, clack...."  Very loud and very
>annoying.  You can hear it inside the cabin with the windows rolled up.  Funny
>thing is that I don't get the noise 100% of the time during cold starts.  Most
>times I do...sometimes I don't.  It usually goes away after it warms up...but
>not always.


Are you sure this noise is not the cam driven vacuum pump?  (I'm assuming that
your motor has one).  My vacuum pump is going bad, and acts ands sounds like
lifter noise....  Just a thought.....

--Eric Glanz
'85 4000Q