my daughter has a loyale with the 1800 motor nonturbo i replaced the head gaskets and now when it runs there is VERY LOUD valve train noise.VERY LOUD help and thanks

Welcome aboard, hopefully we can help and I think your issue might be simple! (crossing fingers) In the future, this is an older generation vehicle and would go in that forum.

 

When these motors are taken apart they often are VERY loud when first started. If you haven't driven it for 10 or so miles, you haven't driven it long enough to pump up the HLA's and get everything back to normal. Just run it some more and get it up to operating temperatures.

 

Did you replace the cam carrier orings at the bottom corner of the cam carriers and if so did you use the proper metal reinforced oring, not just a regular oring?

 

Did you reseal or mess with the oil pump?

 

Change your oil very often, the HLA's will stay quiet hopefully. The good thign is they never need adjusted, the bad thing is frequent oil changes are a must.

 

Hopefully you used the Fel-Pro permatorque gaskets, if not the FSM calls for these head gaskets to be retorqued.

thanks i resealed the oil pump and have put over 100 miles on it and its still loud . it dose seam the the pass( right ) side is louder. hard to tell with all that noise. i may have used the regular o rings. the gaskets are oem with what ever they came with. although im not sure if i didnt get the rockers mixed up, right to left, left to right . thanks

mixing the rocker arms isn't a big deal, done it plenty of times it doesnt' matter.

 

if you didn't use the right oring, then that's probably your mistake. those cam carrier orings are not normal orings. they are actually rubber coated metal gaskets more than an oring. those need to be replaced if you used regular orings.

 

if you dont' know what head gasket you used - then it's supposed to be retorqued per the FSM.

 

sounds like you might want to install the proper orings and retorque the headgaskets.

 

for future info - Fel Pro makes a head gasket that doesnt' need to be retorqued, very popular amongst those in this crowd that have a lot of experience.

+1 Fel Pro gaskets

I've had a rebuilt motor take several days to quiet down. Just a thought, maybe give it a little more time?? Tim