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Re: Lifter Clicking

To: Steve Brehm <sbrehm@sover.net>
Subject: Re: Lifter Clicking
From: Nathan Belo <belo@eskimo.com>
Date: Wed, 2 Oct 1996 18:18:09 -0700 (PDT)
cc: quattro@coimbra.ans.net
In-Reply-To: <199610022222.SAA09473@maple.sover.net>
Sender: owner-quattro@coimbra.ans.net

On Wed, 2 Oct 1996, Steve Brehm wrote:

> The lifters on my 87 5000cst (124K miles)seem to be getting louder. they
> always had made some ticking, but seem worse now. The car has plenty of oil-
> Mobil 1 15W50. Am I in for trouble? What is the best course of action?  
> 
> --Steve Brehm
> 
> 
I bet it's your vacuum pump that is ticking and not your lifters.  Very
common on the I-5 Audis.  My car does it too.  You can get a used one from
AVS for $140 I think 360.748.8578.  Everyone that doesn't know Audis
thought I had lifter problems.  

Nathan Belo
Seattle
'88 90 Q 145K

References:
- Lifter Clicking
  - From: sbrehm@sover.net (Steve Brehm)

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