Date: Fri, 02 May 2003 11:54:35 +0100 From: Grunff <grunffnopsam.com> Subject: Re: Help - Noisy tappet/cam follower/lifter
Andy Hookins wrote: > This is on a B204 engine - I didn't think it had the plastic > oil feed pipe arrangement of the earlier engine - I will find > out tomorrow. Presumably oil starvation would lead to > severely knackered cam shaft bearing faces and I would > already know about that by now. Ah, ok, I think you're right - it doesn't have overhead pipes. But oil starvation to the tappets for a few hundred miles doesn't do much harm. -- Grunff