Re: Noisy Lifters

[VINCELYONS@aol.com]

In a message dated 97-03-19 18:19:40 EST, you write:

<< In message <970319150107.64009ec6@siena.edu> SOP8920@Siena.edu writes:
 
 >    What I haven't heard is an answer to this question: What damage, if
any,
 > will occur if the noisy lifter problem isn't addressed? Will there be
valve or
 > head damage? Is the lifter noise simply an annoyance?
 
 You'll have a rattley car and low street cred.
 
 But a fuller wallet.
  
 Your call.
 
 --
  Phil Payne
  phil@sievers.com
  Committee Member, UK Audi [ur-]quattro Owners Club
  >>

Agreed !  

Phil as usual, whenever we don't disagree you are absolutely correct.

If they don''t make noise you might never know the engine is running and
forget to let go of the key !

Of course clickers and clackers are cool but bangers are broke.  Sometimes 
the valves get blamed for the faults of that silly little vacume pump.

On American iron ( hydraulics for decades ) they get lots of preload and only

make noise on engines that have gone 100k without oil changes.  On American 
muscle cars of the 60's they were mechanical and always made lots-o-noise.

On 'der Deutschlander, they appear to have gone to hydraulics only for the
maint. aspect ( mechanicals every 15k ). "Art of Engineering" didn't care
about 
noise. The former Audi/VW mechanicals ( excluding air cooled) never made much
noise. Go figure.

"Audi" means " to listen ", so... listen to the noise and don't worry about
it.

Vince Lyons