Did all the EA81 hydro lifter engines have the gold stickers on the valve covers?

My 89 doesn't have the stickers.

Valve covers are incidental, and can easily be swapped/replaced/painted etc. To check your valves take the covers off and inspect the pushrods. Smooth steel rods are hydro. Aluminium rods with steel caps are solid.

 

GD

I know how to remove the covers and check, I just don't feel like it right now.

Did all the hydro motors have the stickers from the factory?

Yes (even JDM), but that tells you exactly nothing about what's under the covers. All it tells you is that the cover was either from a solid lifter engine (and may still be on one :-p), or that it's been repainted or the sticker removed.

 

GD

It tells me everything. It tells me that either the engine or valve covers in my hatch are not the original, and I don't like that. Or somebody has changed the valve covers or removed the stickers, which makes me wonder why. Or they just fell off. In any case it tells me that I need to remove my covers to find out for sure what I have. It needs new gaskets anyway:grin: .

Thanks