My Tappets are a little noisey and think im may change them...

Is it a hard task...Whats envolved??

How much and where from???

 

Piece of piss Tiff.

Rocker cover off, rockers off, old tappets out, new tappets in, cover the lot in lubrication, rockers back in, clean the old gasket off the head/rocker cover, rocker cover back on with a new gasket. Don't forget the crossover pipe will have to come off to get the rocker cover off and I am not sure if the throttle body needs to be moved out of the way also.

 

do turbo have tappets? thought they had hydraulic lifters?

 

Technical term is hydraulic tappets or hydraulic cam followers.

 

sorry mate but when i said they had tappets once, some guzzer cunted me off, so thats why i dont say tappets but they fucking tap when they get worn! bloody things.

 

Tiff you need to change cam too.

 

Whys that Rick?????

Is that an easy job too

 

You need to change the cam other wise your old one will chew your new lifters and theyl be tapping in no time all over again as your cam is worn

 

Got ya

Best place for a new cam and lifters then????

I dont want an uprated one as i wont be tuning the car anyway

 

CVH top ends are poorly designed and slowly wear from the moment the engine first runs, the reason they start to tap is because the cam lobes wear, and after a while start to dish the bottoms of the lifters. As a result it gets to a stage where the lifters can no longer soak up the clearance in the valve train, and hence the tapping.

Fitting new lifters alone will last all of a few minutes until the worn cam has munched them up again

 

They are all the same things really mate. The only difference is solid and hydraulic.

 

Why not you miserable old boring tw@....

A chip, actuator and set up can't hurt suerly?

 

I changed my tappets on my first (standerd) series 1 about 12 year ago and left the old cam in, it was BOB on tbh, well it was because i drove to Germany about a week later with no probs what so ever 890 mile trip

P.s my fookin back was in bits though

 

I MAY put it to 170bhp....but that would be it

 

Thats better!

Let me know if you do upgrade and you can have my ECU which is chipped already and my -31 actuator. You can always revert the car back to standard if you come to sell it then.

My car is having something else fitted to it instead.

 

Nice one Daz.....Cheers mate