Re: Hydraulic lifter noise

[Night Shadow <soltwede@ucsub.colorado.edu>]

Basically, just before you change your oil, you dump in a quart, run the
car at idle (DONT drive it or rev it) for 5 min then dump the
oil....basically ATF has alot of cleaners in it...so it can clean the crap
out of your lifters...I have no idea on effect (bad) on the engine...a
mechanic friend of mine reccomended it along time ago on my Coupe...

Eric


On Mon, 29 Mar 1999, Jim Buck/BahnBurners! wrote:

> All right, tell me about this proceedure.  Has anyone else on the list done it?
> 
> jim
> 
> Night Shadow wrote:
> 
> > I did the ATF thing on a old Audi Coupe GT I had....it worked fairly
> > well...quieted all but the worst of my lifters...
> >
> > Eric
> >
> > On Mon, 29 Mar 1999, Brad Sheridan wrote:
> >
> > >
> > >  I've got at least one hydraulic lifter on my 16V that is sticky. It makes
> > > noise, but not always. Sometimes after the car has been run for a while,
> > > like on the interstate, it goes away.
> > >
> > >  Has anyone tried any of the supposed cures for this? Either the engine
> > > cleaner additives, or the story about running ATF instead of engine oil for
> > > a few minute to clean everything out?
> > >
> > >  Alternatively, how difficult is it to swap these on a 16V? The Bentley
> > > makes it look like I've got to tear down alot of stuff, and then completely
> > > retime everything. Are there any quicker/simpler methods? What about
> > > special tools?
> > >
> > > TIA,
> > > Brad
> > >
> > >
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