if your car needs major work done to it don't spend a fortune fixing it but usually you can drive the car "into the ground" meaning until it dies with normal maintance like oil changes and that stuff with the lifters being bad. what you should do when you hear the noise from the lifters starting take your foot off the gas for a minute and then slowly give it more gas.
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∙ 2005-10-14 01:29:26There could be several reasons why you have a noisy hydraulic valve lifter. One reason could be worn our parts in the entire valve train. A loose rocker arm could also cause noise.
There is no valve adjustment on the 2.4 litre 4G64 engine as it has hydraulic lifters fitted, if they are noisy then there are oil additives to clean them or they may need replacing.
remove intake and valve covers, loosen rocker arms, remove push rods, and take the lifters out, replace lifters and put everything back to torque spec. Book time is about 3 hours.
There is no adjustment for hydraulic valve lifters. Lifters can be noisy on some of these models. After ascertaining there is no mechanical damage/broken parts, change engine oil and add 1/2 bottle of STP Oil Treatment (or more if necessary) until lifters are quieter.
valve lifters? it sho do
To replace the valve lifters on a Cavalier, remove the intake manifold, valve covers and rocker arms. Remove the heads of the lifters using needle-nose pliers.
there are 2 lifters for every cylinder, one for intake valve and one for exhaust valve.
how to replace lifters on a 03 grand am
The most effective way to clean valve lifters is to disassembled the vehicle's top end and remove the lifters. They can then be cleaned with a mild solvent, lubricated, and re-installed.
If we are talking about valve lifters, remove cylinder head and pushrods and lifters will be excessable.
The purpse of valve lifters is exactly what it says, to lift the valve.
All 1971 VW Beetle engines were manufactured with solid valve lifters.