[FC] Very noisy lifters first startup... twenty minutes later...

[Bryan Blackwell]

You can:

  - Start it up, go inside, and have your favorite cold one.  Take your 
time, by the time you're done it should be quiet.

If you are out of your favorite cold beverage:

  - Start it up, take it for a drive for 20 minutes to a store.  Pick up 
your favorite cold beverage.  Drive home.  When you are back, the 
engine should sound just fine.  Go inside and enjoy a cold one.

--Bryan

On May 15, 2005, at 7:42 PM, Merv Krull and or Loretta Prosser wrote:

> I re-read Bob Helt's book on noisy lifters and he suggests up to 20 
> minutes for an engine that was poorly maintained... so I ran it for 
> another 10 minutes and I am pretty sure most of the lifters quieted 
> down, but there are two, maybe three lifters making most of the 
> racket.... somewhat like a 7 oz. ball pein hammer banging on an anvil.