Re: Noisy top ends.

[quk@isham-research.demon.co.uk (Phil Payne)]

In message <e15b12c8.362a47d2@aol.com> MB1033@aol.com writes:

> I had read various "recipes" of lubricants to quieten 4000 lifters. I recently
> bought an 87-1/2 CGT with a very noisy top end. I fitted new lifters , hoping
> this would solve the problem. I was really cheesed off when it started to
> clatter again within a few hours.

Did you poke out the oilways in the head with strimmer 'wire'?

(I believe it's called "weedwhacker wire" in the USA.  Just a thin
 plastic line.)

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