hi hope someone can shed some light on a job ive done vehicle was stood for about 6 months customer brought it down with a blown head gasket white smoke from rear.
changed cylinder head gasket and cleaned everything out now engine rattles like mad.
do you have to bleed the hydraulic lifters on this engine 2.0l 16 valve?
is so how do you do it the cams were out for about 4 days in total.
cheers rob
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The lifters should bleed themselves.
Were the hydraulic lifters put into a bath of oil while the engine was apart?
I had a head gasket changed on a Cavalier once and the hydraulic lifters dried out because they were left lying on a workbench for a week by the garage doing the work, resulting in knackered lifters when the engine was put back together. Garage said they weren't to blame.
I bought a tool to remove the lifters while the head was still in situ (8 valve engine - so easy to do) and gave them a thorough strip down and clean, but they still clattered on start up.
I just put up with it as it only did it on start up and later traded the car into the garage that did the work. Suprisingly they commented on the noisy tappets, the same noisy tappets that they denied were making a noise when I went back to complain after they did the work.
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