NOISY ticking

[hooken m]

ok so now that i know that i have them adjusted properly, why do some of the rockers move around still? i'll recheck the valves with the engine ice cold for .25mm on saturday

[e30rapidic]

they need to have a little bit of room to them, hence the movement. When it all gets hot everything expands. If you do them too tight, the valves will never fully close and you'd lose compression. Plus oil couldn't bathe the contact points as well.

[hooken m]

ok update. i redid my valves this morning. engine ice cold .25 mm feeler gauge. i still have a loud ass tick. my only two options is new rockers arms or rocker arm clips. but i dont know where to find these clips. also i used 10w40 oil so its thicker and figured ticking would lessen but its fucking bad. imma upload a vid in a couple mins. its shitty but w/e

[hooken m]

couldnt get it to upload thru forums so just click the link.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jnXG3_R76Kc

p.s i had a huge hangover and sounded liked a bitch. dont mind that

[hooken m]

Bump

[lateracer]

The thing about rocker arm play is that it's a hard thing to accurately spot over an internet video. Needs to be done with a runout gauge.

Video of the car ticking?

[JrCamacho]

The thing about rocker arm play is that it's a hard thing to accurately spot over an internet video. Needs to be done with a runout gauge.

Video of the car ticking?

+1 It would be easier to help diagnose whats happening if we can hear what you hear.

[hooken m]

alright ill post up a vid tommorrow. i really wasnt 100% functional at the time. i was just fed up with the sewing machine

[hooken m]

http://m.youtube.com/?client=mv-google#/watch?xl=xl_blazer&v=AG2BI-qhe-A

Hope this helps

[rjcaptsean]

Link doesn't work for me. Unless of course you wanted me to watch some rifle blowing up.

I had the same issue for the first few months. Followed the Bentley guide, tightened them correctly with a .010ths feeler gauge and they still ticked like crazy. I then did it again, but made sure the engine was stone cold, and tightened them to the point that it was difficult to get the gauge out. I now run 20w-50 and get great pressure (maybe lose a bit of mileage in the winter, but it still beats the hell out of my Suburbans mileage) and it gets plenty hot enough here in the summer to run that oil. No more ticking. Well, maybe a bit from the injectors.

[MTechnikII]

Guys:
my experience with Valve adjustment, for years I went with bently's recomended .012 cold and got crappy MPG low 10s and 11 MPG on my 1991 325i cabrio automatic with 0ver 200kmiles on the engine ,
once I decided to go to 0.013, problem was solved I'm getting 17 , 18 mpg in the city and more on the freeway after readjusting to larger gap.the result was imediate.
try larger clearance and see if it works on your engine.
Henry

[Unearth078]

may need new eccentrics, however if your still getting .25 you should be ok. theyre should be a slight drag on the feeler guage.

[BergerNJ]

ah-ha! thats the issue

.25mm = .010 in

.30mm = .012 in

now I'm confused...can you buy feeler gauges with either standard of measurement?

I have these:

http://www.harborfreight.com/32-piece-sae-metric-feeler-gauge-32214.html

thats inches right? so these would be ok to use?

god im so noob.