Lifter addititive good idea?

[losh1971]

I just went to get some at autobarn. 17 bucks a bottle so i left it and used my g voucher for stuff they had on special. Gonna see how much it is at burson's

 

[07GTS]

if it ticks for a few sec then stops after cold start its normal the oil takes a couple sec to build pressure and the lifters that had pressure on them from cam lift have bled out overnight it's the way they work, if they stay ticking for a few mins ect then id look into it, change oil every 5k id recommend

 

[Immortality]

I've used the Nulon Lifter Free, just add and forget and do the next oil change as scheduled. Worked great for me.

 

[losh1971]

if it ticks for a few sec then stops after cold start its normal the oil takes a couple sec to build pressure and the lifters that had pressure on them from cam lift have bled out overnight it's the way they work, if they stay ticking for a few mins ect then id look into it, change oil every 5k id recommend

i won't worry then my tick goes away in under 5 seconds. Im changing to roughly 5k changes now rather than 10k. Figure when it hits near 5k then buy the oil when its a good price and change it soon after.

 

[losh1971]

I decided to go with 5k changes mainly because of the poxy little filters Holden use. Ford ones are twice the size, go figure

 

[vr304]

L98 has an 8L sump!! so 5k oil changes get quite expensive lol I do try to keep it to around 7-7.5k or 10 at the outside I bought the nulon addititive so will see how that goes

 

[gtrboyy]

Wouldn't worry about it if only does it a few seconds on start up...that's very common.

Always good to do 5k oil changes,just buy oil ahead of time when on sale.

Ls motors seem to get tickety around 200-250k mark even less with irregular oil changes.

Yeah it sucks opening second bottle on cars that take 5.5-7.0 litres haha

 

[vr304]

Wouldn't worry about it if only does it a few seconds on start up...that's very common.

Always good to do 5k oil changes,just buy oil ahead of time when on sale.

Ls motors seem to get tickety around 200-250k mark even less with irregular oil changes.

Yeah it sucks opening second bottle on cars that take 5.5-7.0 litres haha

Yea that's it mate just a few seconds on start up and even then it's not all the time just sometimes

 

[losh1971]

Occasionally penrite bring out 6L bottles. Haven't seen them in a while though.

 

[gtrboyy]

Should be all good then..just keep up all the oil changes.

If it was constant tick on a dod lifter engine then yeah I'd be concerned.