Hi Mark,

FWIW, I had a problem with what I thought were noisy lifters about a year ago.  I set and reset the gaps a couple of times but couldn't seem to get rid of the jingling sound that I was hearing.

Then one day when I was under the van with the motor running, I noticed that there was a hole in the exhaust piping just forward of the engine on the driver's side.  I plugged the hole with exhaust-system filler and the noise went away for good.

Hope your solution turns out to be as simple as mine was.

Rick

On Thu, 2 Apr 2026, at 13:49, ddbjorkman@verizon.net wrote:
> Hi Mark.
> You can probably find a lot of infrastructure in the archives.  If you have trouble finding the archives, let me know.
> Dave B/
>     On Thursday, April 2, 2026 at 02:43:33 PM EDT, Mark McCulley <mark@markmcculley.com> wrote:
>
> Has anyone replaced lifters on their Vanagon? I have one that is very noisy.
>
> -Mark
> '87 Syncro Westy
>
>