Lifters!!! Where can I get them from???

[TracOwner]

I don't want to go to the dealer and pay some crazy amount for them since I'm short on money right now. Should I try the local junkyards or perhaps some of you know where I could get them from at an affordable price? Let me know if you do since it seems like my current lifters are getting louder each day.

And which lifters are the best ones to get? I've heard that the 3rd gen are the best?
And I also need that link with the description on how to change the lifters. Thx in advance.

 

[project_tsi]

slowboy racing i got mine there $150 for a complete set of revised lifters. better than 3g lifters. real good product at an affordable price. you have to pull your cams to change them. but youll then have to re-do timing

 

[TracOwner]

I'll have to pull the cams and redo timing??? Why the hell did I hear that it's easy to change them then?
$150 is kinda expensive for me. I guess I'll have to look somewhere alse.

 

[project_tsi]

yeah its real easy to actually change them but its a PITA to get to the point to change them. i dont know of any other way other than what i said. 150 for the whole set is about the best deal your gonna find on new revised guarenteed no tick lifters but you look elsewhere if you want.

 

[HighPsi92GST]

$136 from diamondstarmotorsport

 

[Prez]

Funny, I changed mine with out pulling the Cams or retiming anything.... Valve cover off... and out come rockers and lifters.

With the help of a nice short pry bar you can pry the rockers to the side and then they FLY out. Pull lifter out. Make sure to prime new one... then instert. Then use pry br in reverse step to install. You will need to rotate then engine by hand for some of the lfters as the cam lobe will have them pressed down.

 

[highpsi93tsi]

Iam not a fan of prying on stuff but it runs fine?? Must be nice to have a smooth running engine rather than that HASH of ticking. Thing sounds like a diesel.

 

[paranoidTSi]

Its not very difficult, in fact I think it took longer to redo the headlight wiring than it did to do the lifters on my vehicle.

The mitsubishi method involves using a tool that pops the rockers off too, so its not like this method is the wrong method.

You do NOT have to redo timing if you rotate the cams with a wrench, as long as you don't take off the belt and the timing is already fine.

 

[paranoidTSi]

I'll have to pull the cams and redo timing??? Why the hell did I hear that it's easy to change them then?
$150 is kinda expensive for me. I guess I'll have to look somewhere alse.

You aren't going to find them for under a hundred, I'll tell you that right now.

 

[project_tsi]

ok i see there is a way to do it w/ out taking out cams. i was unaware then of this way. however id use the correct tool. i wouldnt want to take any chance in scratching or gouging a cam lobe.

 

[TimmyD]

Parts dinosaur has them pretty cheap. That's where I got them from. I used the special tool too. I forget where I got that from.

 

[mysticfire6602]

You aren't going to find them for under a hundred, I'll tell you that right now.

unless you go to a scrapyard and find a junked dsm, preferably a 99 gst/gsx for the larger lifter holes

 

[HighPsi92GST]

good luck finding one of those in a junkyard

 

[highpsi93tsi]

Anybody got a part number for this tool??

 

[Prez]

Yep you can use a small prybar but take your time. You scratch something to bad and it's all downhill from there. I did it on my last DSM and worked out fine. My new DSM has a fresh engine in it so no issues since I installed new lifters with the new engine.

 

[Staytuned]

Pull lifter out. Make sure to prime new one... then instert.

Do not prime them first .....just fill them and empty them then install. If you fill them they have no adjustment left in them ....then you mash your valve in to your piston. The idea is to install them with a bit of oil in them ....then let them prime themselves so as to have the proper lash adjustment.

 

[TracOwner]

well, there are quiet a few 00+ Eclipses here on the junkyards. Perhaps I should get some lifters from them?
I also heard that changing to a certain engine oil or replacing the oil filter will eliminate lifter tick? True?

 

[Prez]

Do not prime them first .....just fill them and empty them then install. If you fill them they have no adjustment left in them ....then you mash your valve in to your piston. The idea is to install them with a bit of oil in them ....then let them prime themselves so as to have the proper lash adjustment.

Sorry by priming I ment fill with oil then empty.... kinda like priming and oil pump.. lubes it up. But maybe I used the wrong term... yeh leaving them full of oil is a bad idea.

 

[Defiant]

well, there are quiet a few 00+ Eclipses here on the junkyards. Perhaps I should get some lifters from them?
I also heard that changing to a certain engine oil or replacing the oil filter will eliminate lifter tick? True?

Friend, if you can't pop $150 for a new set of lifters, you're never going to be able to afford owning a DSM.
Bite the bullet and stop trying to bottom-feed.

 

[Staytuned]

After cleaning mine and reinstalling them the silence only lasted 4 weeks. I just installed a set of new lifters yesterday and let me say it was the best thing I have done yet to my car.

Silence again.

 

[Prez]

Friend, if you can't pop $150 for a new set of lifters, you're never going to be able to afford owning a DSM.
Bite the bullet and stop trying to bottom-feed.

AGREED. Do it right an do it once. Do it wrong and do it 4 more times. Just nut up and buy them 150 is nothing in the terms of DSM mods.

 

[TracOwner]

Fine........but changing them will be a pain in the ass.

 

[Prez]

Fine........but changing them will be a pain in the ass.

Did you not read my other post. Use a small prybar and pop/pry the rockers off and then pull out lifter. It's super easy. Just go SLOW and CAREFULLY so you don't slip and gouge a cam or something. It's really easy I can do a head in 60 mins easy.