Date:         Mon, 10 Mar 2003 07:45:27 -0600
Reply-To:     Stan Wilder <wilden1@JUNO.COM>
Sender:       Vanagon Mailing List <vanagon@gerry.vanagon.com>
From:         Stan Wilder <wilden1@JUNO.COM>
Subject:      Re: Clacking in engine!
Comments: To: j_rodgers@CHARTER.NET
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Have you got oil pressure?
How much?
Stop everything until you get oil pressure!
Fill the oil filter with oil to help get a prime.
If you don't get oil pressure remove the pump and prime it. (pack it with
Vaseline or fill with STP)
To check for oil pressure, remove the spark plugs and coil wire, crank
the engine until you have oil pressure.
Set the valves initially at just touching the rocker to the valve stem,
just for the purpose of cranking it.
Set the valves after that at Boston Bob's .006 clearance or Tom Wilson's
one turn in method.

Stan Wilder

On Sun, 9 Mar 2003 23:19:49 -0600 John Rodgers <j_rodgers@CHARTER.NET>
writes:
> 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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