What would you do to a Ea82 that continuously makes the tapped sound, oil pump changed, serviced regularly, I took tapped's from another Ea82 and still the sound comes n its very annoying what can be done.

the HLA's (tappets you call them) need to be disassembled and cleaned if a new oil pump and new seals didn't solve the trick. if the engine was just put back together it can take some time to go away. clean oil helps alot. dirty oil kills them, they get sticky or something.

 

might be good to verify oil pressure with an accurate gauge. check the oil pan, make sure it's not dented as the sump in the oil pan is close to the bottom. a dent can restrict flow to the dump and rest of the motor (including the HLA's).

 

how long has it been doing this, recently, all the time, many miles? if it just started, change oil filters. any leaks or loss of oil?

 

on the cam housing is an oil rail. remove that and clean out the banjo bolt that has a spring behind it. weird set up - 17mm bolt i think the banjo bolt is. there are two bolts holding the fuel rail on - the larger one is the one i'm talking about. don't think that should cause the HLA noise, but good for the lube system.

the HLA's (tappets you call them) need to be disassembled and cleaned if a new oil pump and new seals didn't solve the trick. if the engine was just put back together it can take some time to go away. clean oil helps alot. dirty oil kills them, they get sticky or something.

 

might be good to verify oil pressure with an accurate gauge. check the oil pan, make sure it's not dented as the sump in the oil pan is close to the bottom. a dent can restrict flow to the dump and rest of the motor (including the HLA's).

 

how long has it been doing this, recently, all the time, many miles? if it just started, change oil filters. any leaks or loss of oil?

 

on the cam housing is an oil rail. remove that and clean out the banjo bolt that has a spring behind it. weird set up - 17mm bolt i think the banjo bolt is. there are two bolts holding the fuel rail on - the larger one is the one i'm talking about. don't think that should cause the HLA noise, but good for the lube system.

 

Its being doing this 4 long i have changed the seals no leaks no dents "banjo bolt" this is something i hvnt checked hv a pic to be sure of. i got other tapped's opened them changed th springs n ball it relaxed for sometime like 3 days again its back but there this thing i dont get when the tapped's sound the car has power when it doesnt theres no power i got huge pipe at the back so when the tapped's sounds its loud but if the tapped does not sounds it turn to be silent. oh i even changed the O rings

Short of cleaning the HLA's you can run a cleaning oil in your engine, like marvel mystery oil, or plain ATF, about 500 miles from your oil change put about a Qt of MMO or ATF in the crankcase, be sure to not go above the full line though.

 

you may have to do that a couple of times, but it should help quiet them down a bit.

Short of cleaning the HLA's you can run a cleaning oil in your engine, like marvel mystery oil, or plain ATF, about 500 miles from your oil change put about a Qt of MMO or ATF in the crankcase, be sure to not go above the full line though.

 

you may have to do that a couple of times, but it should help quiet them down a bit.

 

i did that here we call it flushing, but just once thanks ill try that

Short of cleaning the HLA's you can run a cleaning oil in your engine, like marvel mystery oil, or plain ATF, about 500 miles from your oil change put about a Qt of MMO or ATF in the crankcase, be sure to not go above the full line though.

 

you may have to do that a couple of times, but it should help quiet them down a bit.

 

This may be a dumb question, but it seems that everybody warns to not overfill the oil level in the crackcase. What happens if you overfill the oil? Why is that horribly bad?

if you over fill your oil, the crank becomes a blender, and frothes the oil to a delightful whipped consistancy, which, when its pumped into the bearing journals allows air bubbles in, which as you know does not lube for crap.

 

 

Cliffs notes:

 

If you over fill, you will blow your motor.

if you over fill your oil, the crank becomes a blender, and frothes the oil to a delightful whipped consistancy, which, when its pumped into the bearing journals allows air bubbles in, which as you know does not lube for crap.

 

 

Cliffs notes:

 

If you over fill, you will blow your motor.

 

 

Note to self: don't overfill the motor. got it!