<VV> Possible piston slap.

[Hugo Miller]

Why am I the only person who has mentioned valve lifters as a possible 
cause? I am probably inviting some rude answers, I know ;)

On 2019-11-01 18:01, Jerry Brown via VirtualVairs wrote:
> Yes it sounds like a piston slap.  I had a similar problem, but only
> one piston slap.  When the engine was assembled a worn cylinder got
> mixed in with the non worn cylinders that was worn to 12.5 
> thousands. 
> 5 thousands is the limit.  If you take the spark plug wire off one at
> a time  while running cold and slap sound goes away then you have
> piston slap.   If it still knocks it's most  probably bad
> crankshaft.  
> Jerry
>
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