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Omega Help Area => Omega General Help => Topic started by: smoothhops on 14 September 2011, 14:11:31

Title: Engine Tapping
Post by: smoothhops on 14 September 2011, 14:11:31

I've got a tapping/ticking coming from the engine. Ian D told me get some lifter treatment.
Any recommendation?

Title: Re: Engine Tapping
Post by: albitz on 14 September 2011, 14:17:54

Probably sticking lifters.Wynns lifter treatment (around £6 from Hellfrauds) might help. Depends how bad it is tbh.
A couple of short oil changes with decent oil may also help .
My current breaker sounded slightly tappy first time I started it up. It hadnt been run for a while so maybe the lifters had dried out a bit. I bought some wynns treatment, started the engine to warm it up before I tipped it in and lo and behold the tapping had disappeared all by itself. Tipped the wynns in anyway, as I had bought it.Engine runs like a swiss watch now. Or it did until I disconnected everything attached to it. :)

Title: Re: Engine Tapping
Post by: tigers_gonads on 14 September 2011, 14:19:51

Get yourself a trade card from autobahnstormers (25 quid) and give it lots of oil changes  :y

Every 1000 miles or so or as soon as the oil starts to dis colour  :y
IIRC, 20 ltrs of oil for about 40 quid  :y

This should help  ;)

If not, its time to pull the lifters out and give them a good squeeze in a vice to get the old oil out  ;)

Title: Re: Engine Tapping
Post by: henryd on 14 September 2011, 18:00:15

+1 on the wynns lifter treatment,its good stuff :y

Title: Re: Engine Tapping
Post by: smoothhops on 14 September 2011, 18:19:02

Ordered some wynns treatment, should be here next few days.
Thanks

Title: Re: Engine Tapping
Post by: Omega_Dan on 14 September 2011, 18:57:59

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Ordered some wynns treatment, should be here next few days.
Thanks

Look forward to the results. No Tapping on mine but useful to know if it does start :y

Title: Re: Engine Tapping
Post by: smoothhops on 26 October 2011, 10:47:32

I got some Wynns treatment and it worked like a treat. Stopped tapping within 50 miles.
Thanks for the help.

Title: Re: Engine Tapping
Post by: Bixy1 on 26 October 2011, 11:44:22

Thats handy to know. . .  :y