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

[Western Canada CORSA]

Merv,

I followed Bob's directions for setting the valves cold on my last cylinder
head change.  Remembering the last time I saw Rob do it I knew patience was
the key.  So I had some of my bad habit and waited for the offending lifters
to quieten down.  When I ran out of patience I jacked the car up, rotated my
trombone exhaust out of the way and took off the valve cover and put on the
half cover.  When I started it up they all sounded equally noisey, double
checked them with my Mechanics Stethescope, and sure enough, in the time it
took me to jack the car up and get at the valves the offending lifters had
pumped themselves up.

A "friend" and I had a "cold" vs. "hot" valve adjustment contest on Agnes's
motor.  Wanna guess who won?<BFG>  Cold RULES!

If the lifters were fine before you started working on it, I doubt a lifter
collapsed in the interm.  Like all the other posters have said.  Patience
Grasshopper!

Regards,
Joel
  -----Original Message-----
  From: corvairs-owner at cybrus.net [mailto:corvairs-owner at cybrus.net]On
Behalf Of Merv Krull and or Loretta Prosser
  Sent: Sunday, May 15, 2005 3:19 PM
  To: corvanatics at corvair.org; corvairs at cybrus.net
  Subject: WC: 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