Lifter / Lash Adjuster: Service and Repair

Overview

Examining
- Remove cylinder head (valve) cover, install. Service and Repair
- Position cam at relevant bucket tappet to base circle (lobe of cam must face up)
- Press bucket tappet with suitable toot (not steel tool).
- If one bucket tappet can be pressed more easily in comparison to the others, replace this bucket tappet.

Replacing
- Remove relevant camshaft, install. Service and Repair
- Pull up bucket tappet of respective cylinder with rubber suction cup and remove.
- Perform visual inspection of lifter bore.

CAUTION:
- Install the first version of bucket tappet only together with double valve springs.
- Do not use magnets as minute iron particles collect at the magnetized contact surfaces of the bucket tappet and cause damage to the buckets and cams.
- The bucket tappets must be re-installed at the same point.
- The contact surface must not have any pitting caused by the cam lobe so that the rotational movement of the bucket tappet is not obstructed.