[FC] Very noisy lifters first startup... twenty minutes later...

[J R Read_HML]

Take it for a 10 (at least) mile drive.  Get it up to 50 or so.  By the time 
you are home, it will be quiet.

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Later, JR

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Merv Krull and or Loretta Prosser" <krupross at sunwave.net>
To: <corvairs at cybrus.net>; "The Corvanatics list" <corvanatics at corvair.org>
Sent: Sunday, May 15, 2005 6:42 PM
Subject: Re: [FC] Very noisy lifters first startup... twenty minutes 
later...


>I re-read Bob Helt's book on noisy lifters and he suggests up to 20 minutes 
>for an engine that was poorly maintained... so I ran it for another 10 
>minutes and I am pretty sure most of the lifters quieted down, but there 
>are two, maybe three lifters making most of the racket.... somewhat like a 
>7 oz. ball pein hammer banging on an anvil.
> More history: When the car got here from its journey from Campbell River, 
> I took it for the customary test drive and it ran smooth and quiet. The 
> clutch slipped, but otherwise all seemed well. When I pulled the pan off, 
> it was mired in grey sludge which was probably a PTFE engine gunk of some 
> sort.
> Would that stuff keep lifters quiet? I would think doubtful, but if it got 
> stuck in the lifters, it may explain why a couple of lifters are gifted 
> noise makers now ...???
>
> a somewhat deafened Merv KRull
> Salmon Arm, BC
>
>
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "Shaun" <shaun_mcgarvey at shaw.ca>
> To: "The Corvanatics list" <corvanatics at corvair.org>; 
> <corvairs at cybrus.net>
> Sent: Sunday, May 15, 2005 3:28 PM
> Subject: Re: [FC] Very noisy lifters first startup... help!
>
>
>> Run it! Baby it! Drive it!
>> It will quiet down, I promise.
>>
>> yea, Vairily ... Shaun
>>
>> ----- 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 3:18 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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