At 07:26 6/4/99 -0700, Mark Kazman wrote: >Hi All, >I just bought an 81' westfilia, and spent some time getting it in shape >for our first family outing, when I started it this morning I got a loud >tapping sound from the engine. I thought it was the lifters needing to >pump up a bit, but it never stopped. I had mine do this, shortly after it came over from Scotland and hundreds of miles from home on a Sunday. I was terrified. Called the mechanic who'd just done extensive internal work on the motor and gibbered that the thing was falling apart. He was very blase' -- "just drive it, it's a collapsed lifter." On his instruction I drove it, figuring it was his problem if it wrecked the engine but still very reluctantly. Fifty miles later it shut up and was fine. It's happened a few times since but never lasted more than a 10-15 minutes of actual driving. A tipoff is that it shut down quiet and started up noisy. To verify it for sure you could pop off the valve covers and look, or use a stethoscope on the head. I think you're fine. david David Beierl - dbeierl@ibm.net |
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