Lifter tick

[uglysteve]

Hello,
3 years ago I installed a Atlantic British long block in my Discovery 2. There has been a slowly developing tick. So, I pulled the valve covers yesterday and found 2 push rods with a lot of up down play, probably 1 to 2 mm is my guess. None of the others develop this play as I rotate the engine. I suspect it's the lifters. I will pull the lower intake manifold today and inspect further. I suspect it's the lifters. Can anyone recommend a good quality brand of lifter? Is Genuine best? Any advice is appreciated.

 

[Grum.man]

They all seem to be a gamble. The last set I bought came from TWS. They claim they are american made and what they use on all their builds without issue.

 

[terryjm1]

They all seem to be a gamble. The last set I bought came from TWS. They claim they are american made and what they use on all their builds without issue.

That sounds like good logic to me.

 

[special ed]

Hello,
3 years ago I installed a Atlantic British long block in my Discovery 2. There has been a slowly developing tick. So, I pulled the valve covers yesterday and found 2 push rods with a lot of up down play, probably 1 to 2 mm is my guess. None of the others develop this play as I rotate the engine. I suspect it's the lifters. I will pull the lower intake manifold today and inspect further. I suspect it's the lifters. Can anyone recommend a good quality brand of lifter? Is Genuine best? Any advice is appreciated.

Topline/johnson lifters are the way to go. US made and top quality here in the states. Did you find the lifter was the issue? Lifter quality has gone to crap and taking out camshafts. Started to get really bad when metal prices here in the states tripled. its always been an issue with cheap manufacturing and our oils today are not helpful at all.

 

[robertf]

who sells those lifters? any issue using those and a crower cam? I have one that is about to go together and I haven't purchased lifters yet

 

[discostew]

I've seen a lot of people spend lots of money doing upper valve train work when the real problem is oil pressure. Make sure you know what kind of oil pressure you have before you start.

 

[special ed]

who sells those lifters? any issue using those and a crower cam? I have one that is about to go together and I haven't purchased lifters yet

I would return that crower cam and get your money back. Then get a Kent cam and lifters from TWS. Its your engine and you dont want to do it twice or have to replace the whole thing because of some poorly made part.

 

[mastercamper]

i've got a random tick that will go away when I give it some gas. Never gets any louder of faster. My oil pump is a year old. Runs perfect otherwise.

 

[kris812]

Marvel mystery oil!
And then some STP on next fill

 

[terryjm1]

This is probably the most repeated and oldest reply you will get about rover v8 lifter ticks.

I think there are more that have it than don’t. I have a 1980 3.5 liter with 30,000 miles new from the factory that has it. It bothered me for a while but I just have sort of accepted it. I have heard that type of response over and over. I was dropping my wife off at a shopping center last week and when I parked a D2 pulled up to me in my D1. I live somewhere old Land Rovers are very uncommon so when one spots another there is some magnetic pull that get activated and they park next to one another. I couldn’t believe how loud the tick was with that D2.

I don’t know why I am so fortunate now but I have 2 96 D1s and neither of them tick unless it’s at startup when really cold. One has 130,000 on the engine and the other the low 40s. I have a 98 parts D1 that came with a “rebuilt” engine and no details were available about the rebuild. It is thought to be a 4.6 built from a 4.0. The power it gives seems to support that. It doesn’t tick either and at idle the oil light flickers when hot. I’m pretty confident the oil pump housing is worn out on that one. That engine will be going into my TR8 someday to replace the ticking 3.5 with 30,000 miles. The oil pump will be replaced with the early distributor driven one currently on that 3.5. I suppose then I will know if it was the oil pump causing low pressure at idle.

Long ago I had old Buicks both with the 215 engine and other variants of that engine. Lifter tick was just expected.