FTO AUSTRALIA

Replaced these on my daughters GR with the help on Bennoz's excellant How To BUT
still very noisey, only run it for a couple of seconds so stripped it down again to check everything looks fine. I even soaked the new tappets in a bath of oil & when installed squirted oil into the hole in the middle of each tappet.
So my question is does it take a while for the new tappets to bed in & quieten down?

Yeah it does take some time. Probably about a week of daily driving to work etc which included a dozen or so cold starts before they bed in properly. After that it was silent, as if it were brand new

On the day I did them, I left the car running for a couple of hours too, after that they were at a point where they were about the same as they were prior to replacement.

Bennoz wrote:Yeah it does take some time. Probably about a week of daily driving to work etc which included a dozen or so cold starts before they bed in properly. After that it was silent, as if it were brand new

On the day I did them, I left the car running for a couple of hours too, after that they were at a point where they were about the same as they were prior to replacement.

Thanks for your reply, I was really worried I'd done something wrong, stripped it down again to make sure it was OK
Cheers mate & thanks for the write up. I couldn't have done it without that & also a strong flexible magnet that I used to insert the rear rocker arms
Don

Yep same thing happened to me! Had the car on for about an hour. Still taps though but way better than how it was!