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Omega General Help / I'm fed up!! Tappet noise!!
« on: 28 March 2014, 12:51:17 »
Hi, I'm after a bit of advice please
I've just bought a really nice 2.6 v6, when I looked at it it had been standing and the tappets were noisy, my thoughts were that this was normal for hydraulics and they would quieten down with running, so I went away looked at one or two other cars and decided to plump for this one.
Anyway I picked it up yesterday and after about 10 miles the noise got louder!! I stopped, checked the oil,filthy but all there, and drove it home slowly, it sounds like a bag of spanners!! but all very top end so I assume the hydraulic lifters are knackered.
Before I start is there any advice, flushing wynns etc etc or should I just wade in and take it to bits?
Any comments (apart from scrap it) would be welcomed
Tom
I've just bought a really nice 2.6 v6, when I looked at it it had been standing and the tappets were noisy, my thoughts were that this was normal for hydraulics and they would quieten down with running, so I went away looked at one or two other cars and decided to plump for this one.
Anyway I picked it up yesterday and after about 10 miles the noise got louder!! I stopped, checked the oil,filthy but all there, and drove it home slowly, it sounds like a bag of spanners!! but all very top end so I assume the hydraulic lifters are knackered.
Before I start is there any advice, flushing wynns etc etc or should I just wade in and take it to bits?
Any comments (apart from scrap it) would be welcomed
Tom