<VV> Re: Lifter noise

[NicolCS at aol.com]

I chased "lifter noises" for years on my '66 EFI car.  Three (?) sets  of 
lifters and enough adjustments to wear out a couple sets of rocker arm nuts  
later, I found out that the real culprit was weak valve springs.  The  lifters 
easily held the valves off of their seats after a correct "cold"  adjustment.  
When I set the valves to about a millionth of a turn past  "no-tick", things 
were quiet but the engine wouldn't rev.  I broke / bent  several pushrods along 
the way.  A new set of springs, properly shimmed and  all ticks, breakage, poor 
idle quality, and so-on all went away.  Maybe you  just broke an inner or 
outer valve spring?
Craig



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