Re: CQ PN# Requests?

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

In message <7AB96F9F1358D211B33800A0C9CE055B17D796@SJMC0E001> "Daily,DerekSJMCG" writes:

> At my request, the lifters were checked.  While I was in Canada all last
> week the head was put back on, along with replaced distributor.  When I show
> up yesterday we run the car and its clacking away.  The mechanics put
> "chemicals" in there that "usually solve the clacking" to no avail.  So now
> I'm contemplating going back in and having all the lifters replaced, NOW at
> "additional" labor because the "screwdriver pressure test" for the lifters
> checked out.  I'm more than a little upset.  AND concerned that the clacking
> could be something else altogether right?  Didn't we discuss cracked
> manifolds causing this ticking?

Clacking isn't official until it happens after 2 minutes at 3000
rpm at oil temperatures above 80C.

Are they _all_ clacking?  Could be an incorrect head gasket blocking
the feed oilway.  Only a few?  Were the oilways cleaned out while
the head was off?  Was a proper 'deep reach' spring compressor used
to release the collets, or have the sides of the lifter shaft been
scored by the use of an inappropriate valve spring compressor?

Exhaust 'tick' is a different noise.

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