reberto
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Registered: 21st Jun 04
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Dont know if its tappets or hydrolic lifters on the x14xe but they doin my head in, tried all the addatives, slick 50 , engine flush etc.... so im wondering how much they r to change um, ne ideas on what price a garage would charge?
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Graeme
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Registered: 26th Jul 04
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do an oil change
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FozzyGSI
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Registered: 29th Jan 04
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if its a 16v your looking at about 6-7£ each for a tappet, Url end spending about £120 if you do it yourself
[Edited on 11-06-2005 by FozzyGSI]
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ed
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£120 a set for the tappets + Timing belt probably a smart idea to do the rollers and water pump while your at it so another £140 roughly. You got the right oil in it? Try Castrol GTX High Milage 15w 40, is it tapping at cold only or is it all the time? Garage would probably charge in excess of £300 because there is a lot of labour involved.
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Will94
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Registered: 1st Nov 02
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Well this wont be what you wanna hear, but might not be the tappets at all. Could be a number of things, my m8's X14XE started tapping one day and it never went away even after a full set of tappets. Turned out to be some dodgy valve guides..... then when they broke it hurt his wallet somewhat!
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Ant
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Registered: 12th May 02
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£7 a tappet for non gm ones which you will then find yourself repacing again for genuine at a cost of £17 each
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James R
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Registered: 4th Feb 03
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just take them otu clean them, replace and then go rag the f**k out the car for 20mins and it shoudl shut them up.
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ed
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Good way to clean tappets out is:
Take them out the engine with a valve grinding stick or some kind of suction thingie, you need to keep them upright at all times.
Degrease them and get all the drity oil out of them using WD40, get them reall clean. If they have gone gold coloured then bin them, you have fucked them by reving the engine way too high!
Soak them in engine oil for a few days, all the crappy oil will float out of them and they will fill up with new clean oil, the oil you soak them in will have a brown sedement when they are ready, I soaked mine for a week....
Re-fit them, try not to let too much oil leak out of them when you re-fit them, you want them as oily and as lubricated as possible, mine were dripping when I put them in. With good valve stem seals and a clean head this shoudn't cause any problems.
[Edited on 12-06-2005 by 1800ed]
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James R
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Registered: 4th Feb 03
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or nick them out of any 16v vx engine down the scrappy as they are all the same 
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supremefaulk
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Registered: 5th Feb 08
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how do you change tappets then? As my x14xe is tapping all the time and annoying me a fair bit, not loud, and only at low revs, i can live with it, but trying to make my corsa look and go as nice as possible before i start modding everything.
btw, i am no big mechanic, i can do oil and filter, brake pads n disks, spark plugs and thats about all ive tried.
So a step by step would be absolutely fantastic if anyone would be so kind?
how many tappets are in an engine as well?
Cheers for any help given
Kris
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corsa_rob
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Registered: 22nd Jan 06
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i have clicking all the way through the rev range on my x14xe...dont think its tappets...has gone through 2 oil changes and still does it...sounds more like a cambelt noise on mine...when under the car...check everything is plugged into everything...little pipes and shit...i had few sounds and turned out to be little rubber 90 degree pipes has worn away still need to sort out the big noise i have...but its looking more likely to be a a c20xe to fix it haha!
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James_H
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Registered: 16th Sep 07
Location: Slough, Berkshire
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Is it a tap or knock?
To change the tappets, take the air box out, the take the cam belt off (make sure its timed up)
Take the rocker cover off, then the bolts for the cams, make sure you know what cam is which, also the bearing caps are in the same order
Then you see 16 big round cylinders, get a magnet or a sucker (oo err), and there they are.
Hope it helps  if you need help u2u me.
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