Replaced head, now I have noisy valves

lennyseleven · Post by **lennyseleven** » December 17th, 2006, 4:25 pm

I had my warped head shaved down and just reinstalled and got the car running yesterday. The valves are quite noisy now, do I need to change the shims because the head was shaved or is this caused by somethign else?

thanks
Nick

WingleBeast · Post by **WingleBeast** » December 18th, 2006, 12:16 am

not enough oil or oil pressure

jaydog5678 · Post by **jaydog5678** » December 18th, 2006, 8:44 am

Might be a shot in the dark, but did the 92-93 sohc engines have a valve adjustment? If so, then adjust the valves.

kudkudniyog · Post by **kudkudniyog** » December 20th, 2006, 11:51 am

It has self adjusting hydraulinc lifters. Mine does the same thing. I checked out a local Mazda dealer and the lifters cost about USD40.00.................each. I think the engine has 16 lifters.

TREVO123 · Post by **TREVO123** » December 23rd, 2006, 12:33 am

I have a spare head if you need it.

lennyseleven · Post by **lennyseleven** » December 24th, 2006, 3:12 pm

Im going to measure the clearnaces and see if I need shims since they are self adjusting