Re: Noisy top ends.

["Mr. Daniel P. Grady" <dgrady@mail2.nai.net>]

In most motors, when the cam or lifters are replaced they should be replaced
as a pair. Is this true with Audis as well? I'd be nervous about replacing
the lifters and subjecting them to a sloppy cam. Perhaps it is a good idea
to check the cam (with micrometer?) before installing new lifters? Unless I
hear differently from multiple reliable sources, I'll keep doing them as a
set. Can any serious engine builder suggest a used cam with new lifters or
new cam with used lifters?
Drive fast,
Dan!!!


>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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