Date:         Wed, 6 Aug 2008 20:01:34 -0500
Reply-To:     Max Wellhouse <dimwittedmoose@CFU.NET>
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From:         Max Wellhouse <dimwittedmoose@CFU.NET>
Subject:      Re: Any advice on bleeding lifters (2.1)
Comments: To: Scott Daniel - Turbovans <scottdaniel@TURBOVANS.COM>
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...and all this time I thought Marvel Mystery Oil was the magic
elixir for noisy valve train issues!!!

DM&FS

At 04:30 PM 8/6/2008, Scott Daniel - Turbovans wrote:
>Coesn't it just saw to submerge them in oil ( clean oil I'd think ! ) and
>pump them up and down until they get oil into them ? .
>that's what I do.
>the really nice thing on a rebuild is brand new lifters.   ( And
>,............there is the old thing about never putting new or different
>lifters on a cam or more specifically each cam lobe..............so that
>might encourage some people to religeously stay with the same lifter on the
>same lobe in a used cam ) ..........
>but if that doesnt' bother you, new lifers are nice.  I think they're like
>25 to 30 bucks each .
>
>What I find is that old ones get sticky.........
>I've had it take months of treating the oil, and driving the van to get old
>used lifters back to full health so that they never get clicky.
>My own 2.1 engine in my 85 Wolfsburg Weekender is like that ......
>The lifters getting noisyh  from very short periods of operation where an
>issue for months..........and once one or two got noisy, it would take af
>few hours of operation for them to quite down again.
>now. a year later.............they are never an issue. Must've gotten well
>cleaned out finally.
>
>I use, btw........for non-synthetic oil ...........Chevron Delo 15W40 , and
>only that oil........plus hydrualic lifter cleaners, when needd, like CD-2 -
>is one brand.
>scott
>turbovvans.com
>
>----- Original Message -----
>From: "Jim Felder" <jim.felder@GMAIL.COM>
>To: <vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM>
>Sent: Wednesday, August 06, 2008 1:59 PM
>Subject: Any advice on bleeding lifters (2.1)
>
>
>>Bentley offers the usual rain dance for getting oil in the lifters. Mine
>>have been sitting for months as I've slooooooowly rebuilt the rest of the
>>engine, but the day is coming (hopefully soon) when I will be reinstalling
>>them. I seem to remember hearing a simplified method.
>>Anyone?
>>
>>Jim