16v valve lifters

[dagnamit at gmail.com (Brian Wagner)]

Or Seafoam works as well

----- Original Message -----
From: "David Utley" <fahrvergnugen@cox.net>
To: "'Brian Haygood'" <brianhaygood@gmail.com>; <scirocco-l@scirocco.org>
Sent: Sunday, April 22, 2007 12:27 AM
Subject: RE: 16v valve lifters

> Put some Rislone in the oil.  It will help clean-out the gunk that
> inevitably builds-up in the passages that allow the oil into the lifter
> itself.  Even though it sounds bad, it causes NO extra wear.  Revving it
> until it is hot is also sometimes helpful...
>
> David
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Brian Haygood [mailto:brianhaygood@gmail.com]
> Sent: Saturday, April 21, 2007 11:38 PM
> To: scirocco-l@scirocco.org
> Subject: 16v valve lifters
>
> I've got two 16v's that have sat for a while.  They both have ticking 
> noises
> coming from the top end.  One sounds like its from the exhaust side of #1,
> and the other from ex side of #4.  I thought the first was due to 
> localized
> overheating - the water level got low.  The other was fine - just sat up 
> for
> a while.
>
> Anyway - now I read in the Bentley that lifters have to be stored upside
> down.  Obviously none of these have been.  They have been installed under
> camshafts, if that makes a difference.  I have a spare 2.0l head that has
> been stored upright for years. I was going to pull the lifters, but now 
> I'm
> thinking that they will have been drained dry or something.
>
> How do I renew these lifters so that I can use them?
> How do I maintain the lifters that are already in there so that no more of
> them go bad?
> I'm ready to run these cars as soon as this is fixed, so there won't be 
> long
> term storage issues after this.
>
> Am I on the right track?
>
> Please tell me all you know about lifters.
>
> Brian
> _______________________________________________
> Scirocco-l mailing list
> Scirocco-l@scirocco.org
> http://neubayern.net/mailman/listinfo/scirocco-l
>
>
> _______________________________________________
> Scirocco-l mailing list
> Scirocco-l@scirocco.org
> http://neubayern.net/mailman/listinfo/scirocco-l