Date:         Sun, 9 Mar 2003 23:19:49 -0600
Reply-To:     John Rodgers <j_rodgers@CHARTER.NET>
Sender:       Vanagon Mailing List <vanagon@gerry.vanagon.com>
From:         John Rodgers <j_rodgers@CHARTER.NET>
Subject:      Re: Clacking in engine!
Comments: To: raul lince <eeore37@HOTMAIL.COM>
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Look up Boston Engine on the internet. Robert Donalds has posted there
the whole valve adjusting procedure for setting up a new engine.

I've got news. On a new engine it can take an hour to warm up/pump up
those lifters. Just don't run it at speed until you get them right. If
everything else is right, the lifters will eventually start to quiet down.

John Rodgers
88 GL Driver

raul lince wrote:

> Well we hava installed the engine and done everything we could think
> of to
> make it as good as we could short of ripping appart the block and doing a
> complete rebuild.  We stated the engine for the first time in 5
> months(working on the car only on the weekends)and have done a head
> job plus
> other things.  But we have a problem.  Engine roared to life in about 5
> cranks but it had the loudest clacking sound it has ever made.  I we
> waited
> about a minute to let the lifters pump up with oil but the sound never
> went
> away.  We adjusted the valves according to the procedure in the green
> block
> and using the head procedure available here on the article files.  I
> wonder
> if anyone has gone through this same thing.  We used remanufactured heads
> and kept all pushrods in their lifetime living quarters.  I dont know
> if im
> asking too much of an open ended question but i appreciate all the
> free info
> gotten here through this whole thing,  its been my support.   Anyway
> thanx,
>  Raul
>
>
>
>
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