Hello peeps.

Ive done around 850 miles on my new rebuild now, and today, one of the lifters started tapping quite noisily on tickover. It goes away as soon as the revs increase.

They were brand new from PJ Motorsport.

Will it shut up? or am i gunna have to change them again? What could be the cause?

Cheers for any info
Mike

 

they have a mind of their own mate

give it time they will shut up eventually

 

thats good to hear.

im running pro r 15/50. Is that right? or shall i drop to 10/50?

 

i use castrol edge sport 10w 60,cant fault it

 

erm i think its because i had a wank in your oil cap when ur back was turned lumpy old spunk is not good for engines i hear

 

you mofo.

 

 

Shut it slaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaag

 

should be good/quiet from the start.........................mine is

 

just been out in it again, and its still knocking on tick over. As soon as you increase revs, it dissapears!

 

thinking about it, it was fine until i changed the oil yesterday to fully-synthetic from mineral.

Would that have anything to do with it?

 

anyone?

 

Probably that oil, the Saph is ticking like a bitch since a recent oil change

 

 

Leave it for a few miles,but new ones shouldn't really be noisy

Might be worth takin cam cover off and checking that the threads are ok on the studs that hold the cam caps down,common for these to pull the threads out of the head
What did you torque them too,IIRC its only somethin stupid like 5 lbs ft

 

yeah did as workshop manual suggested. but liek i say, its been fine until i changed the oil

 

seen this before it turned out to be a dodgy oil filter. worth changing it before anything else i would of thought.

 

oil filter? really???