Russ
Club Member
Hi all,
Just thought I'd report and help someone in the future maybe.
My car developed a slight tappety noise, which I thought "Oh no, low oil pressure, argh panic". It got a little worse, but nothing to stress about just sounded horrible.
Anyway the car has been without mot/stood up for a couple months now (it got broken into then I decided to do some jobs and then the mot expired, doh!). Anyway started it up, quite tappety, it warmed up, very tappety!
I had a search on the 300 forum and a lot of people were saying about these oil additives curing it. I hate 'snake oils' but for £7 a bottle of
Wynns Hydraulic Valve Lifter Treatment
at Hellfrauds was worth a shot.
I got home, let the car run on the drive for 15 mins to warm up, stopped the car, poured the whole bottle in the oil, let it run for 3 mins again on the drive. Instantly sounded better. Then 20 mins drive and not a single noise even from the offset, car seems lots happier.
Just started it up again this eve (day later) and the problem has not come back (yet). Much as cleaning the hydraulic lifters sounded like fun (see http://www.twinturbo.net/net/viewmsg.aspx?forum=technical&msg_id=917346) hopefully this will put the problem off long enough That car has done 60k so I'd hope they're good for a few more miles with decent oil. I'm not sure but I read the 'treatment' needs to be reapplied each oil change, I'll forget that idea. I'll give it an oil change before I do any miles/track days anyway.
Anyway give it a shot before you strip the head, appears to have helped me
Just thought I'd report and help someone in the future maybe.
My car developed a slight tappety noise, which I thought "Oh no, low oil pressure, argh panic". It got a little worse, but nothing to stress about just sounded horrible.
Anyway the car has been without mot/stood up for a couple months now (it got broken into then I decided to do some jobs and then the mot expired, doh!). Anyway started it up, quite tappety, it warmed up, very tappety!
I had a search on the 300 forum and a lot of people were saying about these oil additives curing it. I hate 'snake oils' but for £7 a bottle of
Wynns Hydraulic Valve Lifter Treatment
at Hellfrauds was worth a shot.
I got home, let the car run on the drive for 15 mins to warm up, stopped the car, poured the whole bottle in the oil, let it run for 3 mins again on the drive. Instantly sounded better. Then 20 mins drive and not a single noise even from the offset, car seems lots happier.
Just started it up again this eve (day later) and the problem has not come back (yet). Much as cleaning the hydraulic lifters sounded like fun (see http://www.twinturbo.net/net/viewmsg.aspx?forum=technical&msg_id=917346) hopefully this will put the problem off long enough That car has done 60k so I'd hope they're good for a few more miles with decent oil. I'm not sure but I read the 'treatment' needs to be reapplied each oil change, I'll forget that idea. I'll give it an oil change before I do any miles/track days anyway.
Anyway give it a shot before you strip the head, appears to have helped me