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Old Jan 8, 2010 | 11:30 PM
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Tonight I cranked my car in 22* weather and noticed I had slight lifter tap on my passenger side. I'm about to stab an F14 in my car and I'm worried about that lifter. Like I said, it's fairly quiet but I'm bummed that I started hearing it. Any advice?
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Old Jan 8, 2010 | 11:34 PM
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Fix it before it becomes a serious problem
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Old Jan 8, 2010 | 11:45 PM
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i have the same problem with my car but its on the driver side does anyone know if it will hurt my engine if i keep driving it like that and how bad
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Old Jan 9, 2010 | 09:34 AM
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Originally Posted by ipweeb
Fix it before it becomes a serious problem
Thanks for the great input

I think that weather had something to do with it Josh, it didn't sound that bad to me we could barely hear it. My old 5.3 tapped way worse than your car from 100k miles to 185k when I traded it in, no problems... Bad thing is Im hearing of alot of people with NEW lifters failing, go figure.
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Thanks Jamie! I hope it does well with my future baby cam lol, until I get some heads anyway.
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