Re: About my noisy lifter

["Matt Rooke" <mrooke@fcpa.fujitsu.com>]

>> Phil Payne said to fill it with oil to the max mark.  I was skeptical
>> but figured what would it hurt and I should top off the oil anyway.  I
>> added a little less than a quart and the next time I drove it noise
>> was gone.
>
>> Not to look a gift horse in the mouth or anything, but why did this
>> work?  I thought the lifters were supplied pressurized oil from the
>> pump.  What difference could the oil level in the sump make unless it
>> was way low?
>
>I spent the next hour in the garage dancing around a pentagram covered
>only in old engine oil and blown gaskets, incanting dark secrets from
>the microfiche.

Funny, that is approximately my mental image of Phil, who is a person I
have only met in this virtual list-world.  It is a very disturbing
image at that.

>
>Seriously, I don't know why or how it works.

If Phil doesn't know, nobody does!  I've pondered this in the past, and
usually could only shake it out of my head by excessive drinking.  I've
since learned that a good Audi owner never lets the oil get 1/4" below
the full line before topping off.  Mine started ticking a few weeks back,
and lo and behold it was a full quart down.  I had the self-esteem of
a speed bump for days after that.

Matt Rooke
'91cq