I finally got a new ps fluid reservoir so I could move the car up into the driveway without spilling mineral oil everywhere, but since the car has been sitting so long, the minor valve tick it had before is really loud now, especially with the hood up.

I've been searching on google, smjautotechnic, and various audi forums, but I can't find the required valve lash anywhere. Even the Mitchell CD I bought a while ago has conveniently stopped working, even after re-installing it. The only Chilton's or Haynes manual I've ever seen sold anywhere was on eBay, and it would have cost me 5 times more to ship it from England than the actual purchase price.

Does anyone have the valve clearance numbers for the 10v motor? And if you do, what resource did you get them from? I don't want to have to buy the full 3-volume shop manual set when I'm sure this stuff is available for free somewhere on the internet. I have a Honda FSM for my Prelude in PDF format, so there must be something like that for the type-44's, right?

 

haha Nevermind I pulled the valve cover off a 5-cyl in the junkyard and found the hydraulic lifters. Guess I'll just do a thorough flush before the oil change and hope the lifters are ok.

 

ditto