Definitely. The 'best way' to get your lifters to be noisy, is start up the engine, move the van a few feet, then shut it off. Do that a few times and you get noisy lifters, and it seems to take 5 to 10 times as long driving time to get the quiet up again.
----- Original Message ----- From: "Ken Lewis" <kdlewis@NORTHSTATE.NET> To: <vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM> Sent: Saturday, August 29, 2009 7:08 AM Subject: Lifter observation.
> Greetings all, > I have noticed the lifters are most likely to clatter if the day before > the > truck was started from cold and only moved a few feet. Just a data point. > Ken Lewis > http://neksiwel.20m.com/ > in statu viae |
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