VANAGON archives -- February 2013, week 1 (#65)

Date: Sun, 3 Feb 2013 09:08:23 -0800 Reply-To: John Goubeaux <john@UCSB.EDU> Sender: Vanagon Mailing List <vanagon@gerry.vanagon.com> From: John Goubeaux <john@UCSB.EDU> Organization: UCSB Subject: Noisy Valve lifters Content-type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed

Howdy Folks,

I've got a 2.2 GoWesty engine that has roughly 6K miles on it. It's running fine -but because I am not driving it a lot, it can sit for a week or more before I fire it up and drive it, the valve lifters have clacked on several occasions while the engine is cold. After several miles and higher RPMs the noise eventually goes away. I've seen this on older Waterboxer engines I have had ( with lots of miles on them), BUT the question is: Is this something to worry about at all given it's a new engine OR b/c it often sits for longer periods IS this normal ?

-john

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