VANAGON archives -- July 2004, week 4 (#8)

Date: Thu, 22 Jul 2004 07:53:55 -0400 Reply-To: Jason Pufahl <jasonpufahl@HOTMAIL.COM> Sender: Vanagon Mailing List <vanagon@gerry.vanagon.com> From: Jason Pufahl <jasonpufahl@HOTMAIL.COM> Subject: Re: Lifter noise Comments: To: Keith Patterson <KPatterson@SIERRAWIRELESS.COM> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1"

I find that just running it for a while fixes the problem. Any short hop makes it knock, so I just use it for longer (20 mins or more) trips now and if it was knocking at all it always clears up. I'm running 20W50 with a Mahle filter.

----- Original Message ----- From: "Keith Patterson" <KPatterson@SIERRAWIRELESS.COM> To: <vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM> Sent: Wednesday, July 21, 2004 12:27 PM Subject: Lifter noise

I've got an 87 westy with a funny problem. If I start it and let it run for a short time (say 5 minutes) then turn it off, the next time I start it my lifters make a horrible sound. I assume they are losing there pressurization. If I drive it for a while the noise goes away.

Any thoughts?

Thanks,

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