[FC] Very noisy lifters first startup... help!

[J R Read_HML]

Assuming there is oil in it, it could take up to a half hour to quiet down. 
Let it run at least that long.  If no oil, it might not make it that long.

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Later, JR

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Merv Krull and or Loretta Prosser" <krupross at sunwave.net>
To: <corvanatics at corvair.org>; <corvairs at cybrus.net>
Sent: Sunday, May 15, 2005 5:18 PM
Subject: [FC] Very noisy lifters first startup... help!


Hi folks!

I turned the key, the starter kicked in, and the engine turned over with 
satisfying authority. The oil pressure light went off. Once the gas got into 
the carbs, the spitting and giggling started.. you know... the sound of an 
engine eager to fire up and get going, but just not enough gas to come fully 
to life on its own. Another couple of pumps of the accelerator and it 
finally idled to life... not so much like a kitten.... more like a really 
ticked off tiger. The valve train noise was fierce! I let it idle for close 
to five minutes hoping that the noise would settle down remembering that 
someone on this listserv said it could take up to 15 minutes... I got scared 
and shut it off. Started again a minute later, no change, shut it off.

I did a complete static setting of the lifters while the engine was sitting 
on the workbench following Bob Helt's book word for word. I found that I did 
not have to change each setting much at all if any.

My mechanic brother in law says hmmmmm usually 3 or 4 minutes does the trick 
on water pumpers.

Am I gonna hafta set the lifters with the engine running?

Should I just let it run until it quiets down?

I put Castrol Synthetic 10 30 in it and no major parts have come out through 
the exhaust pipe....

What to do? What to do?

thanx
Merv Krull
Salmon Arm, BC
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