Reply to "Seeking for advise - adjusting hydraulic lifters"

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Thanks Garth and George for your inputs clearly indicating that I did the wrong thing. I let the engine sit for a day and found that some hydraulic lifters are still hard as a rock. I understood that those need to bleed the contained oil before you should adjust them. I think that as long there is oil in the lifter you do not know in which position the plunger is, right?

In order to bleed the lifters I have tighten all the adjustment nuts by a couple of extra turns with the results that all valves are now slightly open and thus putting pressure on the hydraulic lifter (valve spring force). I leave this for a day and will check this evening whether all lifters are correctly bleed (show the same "spring effect"). Does it make sense what I'm doing?

Brgds

SIG

11/7/191:47 AM

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