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TomRhere

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  1. Oil pump can be serviced without removing the engine. Easier if you pull the radiator.

     

    Might as well do the timing belts and idlers at the same time.

     

    Agreed.

     

    Also may want to replace the water pump if money allows and you don't know it's age. Going to be right there next to it anyways.

     

    Seeing as yours doesn't have A/C, pulling the radiator AND the center of the grille, gives all kinds of; "I can see what I'm doing" room.

     

    I have used ATF/kerosene/fuel-oil/diesel along with the engine oil in the oil pan to try to clean the innards of an engine in the past. All will work, but I seem to like Seafoam more as of late.. ATF is high detergent, it do clean stuff well.

    Risleone (sp?) Engine Flush was another one I used in the past, but don't find it locally anymore. That stuff worked in my opinion, but it smelled just like kerosene to me. So why not use use kerosene instead was my thought, as I could buy a gallon of kerosene for the cost of the quart can of Risleone.

  2. Yep. Just what you thought it to be. Noisy lifter. Referred on here as, "The Tic-of-Death" (TOD). But it's really not fatal to the engine. Annoying as all get out, definitely.

     

    Some Seafoam in the oil for a bit to maybe clean things, and a fresh oil change may help.

    But a reseal of the oil pump would really be best.

     

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    Didn't hear that when you were down here last Sunday.

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