chaseman Posted May 25, 2014 Share Posted May 25, 2014 (edited) Long story short , car had very loud ticking.I had great oil pressure on a mechanical gauge. So I tore off the cam tower to change my oil ring , it wasn't bad so I took the cam out to check the oil passages and there was a big ol chunk off rubber or cured black rtv in in it. I have picture but I'm not sure how upload here from my phone.So considering the car was driven a 1000+ miles with no oil to the lifters. Should I replace them before I button it back up? How should they fell when I squeeze them? Solved! I finally got it back together and the driver side is absolutely silent. The only issue is without the previous extremely loud ticking I can hear the passenger side ticks now. So I gotta take off the passenger side cam tower and look it over. Edited May 28, 2014 by chaseman Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chaseman Posted May 25, 2014 Author Share Posted May 25, 2014 Picture of crud in cam tower oil passage Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MR_Loyale Posted May 25, 2014 Share Posted May 25, 2014 Kind of looks like you got grass growing in there too or weird spiders. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chaseman Posted May 25, 2014 Author Share Posted May 25, 2014 Oh yeah , it's really windy and in the 20 minutes it was lying outside stuff blew in. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
scoobiedubie Posted May 26, 2014 Share Posted May 26, 2014 Hydraulic lifters are supposed to be rock hard with very little compression when recently removed from engine. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chaseman Posted May 26, 2014 Author Share Posted May 26, 2014 Right but these would have had no oil pressure to them. They wouldn't have had a chance to properly pump up ever. Is there a way to bench test them? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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