Hydraulic tappets ?

[limitedblack]

Respect your keen spirit for fixing, struggling to go to work at the moment. Knee is really failing now and we've run out of wonder drugs.

[belly]

Respect your keen spirit for fixing, struggling to go to work at the moment. Knee is really failing now and we've run out of wonder drugs.

It needs to be reliable and working as its busy season Plus I like things well maintained and running right

[limitedblack]

Respect your keen spirit for fixing, struggling to go to work at the moment. Knee is really failing now and we've run out of wonder drugs.

It needs to be reliable and working as its busy season Plus I like things well maintained and running right

What's the jumbo for? Still doing the marquees ?

[ME]

Smoking Jacket well and truely swopped for a pair of Overalls

[belly]

What's the jumbo for? Still doing the marquees ?

It's a schlaag van In other words does a bit of everything, I've done some building of panels recently, yes still do marquee's in my off week and as my sport is racked out its useless for any work on the house etc etc Basically I sold my other jumbo to my mate then regretted it as it was a good van and handy having a big empty van so bought another

Smoking Jacket well and truely swopped for a pair of Overalls

Your not wrong ! I've had the tweed overalls on more than the smoking jacket It's raining here so it'll have to be the waterproofs today

[belly]

Ok a little update I've stripped the rocker ladder off and inspected the cams and valve springs and I'm pleased to say there's no wear on the cams or any broken valve springs, so I've inspected the rockers and all the wheels are good with no wear however two inlet rockers seemed quite loose on the hydraulic tappet I removed them off the tappet and found the actual tappet heads are quite badly scorn and worn I tapped them out from the ladder and it would appear the oil gallery feeding those two has been blocked So I'm on the hunt for somewhere that supplies the hydraulic tappets individually any suggestions ? They look like silver minions btw

Cams and valve springs



Fubar'd tappet

[blue estate]

That's a bit scored

[belly]

Sure is Btw 3.2 owners the tappets/rockers are identical to 2.4 ones

[blue estate]

Sure is Btw 3.2 owners the tappets/rockers are identical to 2.4 ones

So all ford did was to tack an extra cylinder on ?

[belly]

Pretty much, obviously lots of bits differ to give the 5cyl but I'm finding it shares a lot of bolt in components, I'm having to think outside the box for some bits as most people havn't ever seen one or heard of one I get asked if its v6 petrol a lot for some reason Again this forum and being Transit geeks has helped loads

[V184]

Wonder if its the original head, didnt they recall & replace them on the earlier ones ?

[belly]

Wonder if its the original head, didnt they recall & replace them on the earlier ones ?

Looks original tbh, when did they start the 200 ? I know they where about in glx spec etc mine must be a early "limited"

[V184]

08 i think ?

[fumbduck]

belly did you ever manage to replace your lifters and fix your problem?

[fumbduck]

I had the same problem, popping sound back into the airfilter box.
At first I hoped it would be an easy fix with checking the injector seals.
These are just a small washer really, one local Ford stealer told me they are not available as a separate item but must be bought together with new injectors (yeah right).
Another said they could get them but they would cost $39 each !!
Ended up going to a diesel injector place and got 4 for $20 (that's more like it)
After putting the new seals in and torqueing them down properly I still had the popping sound.
So next I removed the rockers/lifters.
Cleaned up all the lifters as some of them seemed stuck in one position.
Found out that 2 of the lifters had broken springs in them.
Again the stealers said there was no listing for them.
Ended up getting a couple of new rockers with lifters (could not buy the lifters separate) from an engine reconditioner for $50 each.
Put it all together and now she runs beautiful.
Even with 390000 kliks on the clock this engine is running very well.