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need help with tapping noisejmiles_97_lumina 03-11-2007, 09:52 PM a month ago i noticed that my car was useing alot of coolant and there was no sigh of leaking, pulled the oil cap off and there was coolant in the oil, so i assumed it was the lower intake, no problem- so i replace the lower intake and the upper intake, now the vehicle had a rocker arm or a lifter noise, i made sure i set the right push rods in the right area becuae ones bigger t han the other .. and i torqued every t hing to spec, now the car has this god awful ticking noise, and it never was there before, i also went fron 10w30 to rotella 15w40 to see if it would go away and it didnt, i also have a loss of power, can anyone please help me (also when i drained the oil the first time it had alot of coolant in it, i think it might if wased out the engine, is that posible??? i can post a movie clip on my server of it making the noise corning_d3 03-11-2007, 10:34 PM 15w-40 won't help and can actually hurt your engine, and it's probably made for diesel engines. I'd remove it asap.. If your 100% positive you got all the pushrods back where they came from, then you could have a lifter problem. jmiles_97_lumina 03-11-2007, 10:36 PM yea that what i think also, corning_d3 03-11-2007, 10:43 PM I had an intake gasket failure a while back, and while I had it tore down, I flushed and primed all the lifters in case any coolant found it's way in them. It was noisy at start-up and ran like shite for a few minutes, but after a few minutes of idling, it cleared right up. I'm at 217,000 miles and they're getting noisy again. Probably time to replace 'em this time.. Automotive Network, Inc., Copyright ©2012
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