Re: Engine Still Knocking 4kq

[Tom Nas <tnas@euronet.nl>]

quk@isham-research.demon.co.uk (Phil Payne) wrote:

>Even a dying hydraulic lifter should go quiet after two minutes at 3000 rpm.

When I bought my car, w/close to 100k miles on it, it sounded like a
diesel. Sales guy: 'Yes, but it's been standing a while. It'll disappear
eventually'. Well, not in a 20 mile test drive it didn't. I made them
replace all lifters as a part of the sale, and it's been super-quiet ever
since.

Going to synth oil made the lifter noise at startup go from one minute to
10 secs.

Tom

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 Tom Nas                                          Zeist, The Netherlands
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 1988 Audi 80 1.8S, mostly Tizianrot metallic, 215,000km

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