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Hydraulic Tappets?

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Having come to terms with a bit of a tappety motor, I found a Volkspares sticker on the rocker cover saying manual tappets and the adjustment. I assumed that this 1.9DG had hydraulic tappets, a VW sticker on the airbox suggests they are hydraulic. After going through all past receipts I have found out that Volkspares put in a recon engine but one with manual tappets, is this normal or did they sling a duff motor in it!! Are all DG's supposed to be hydraulic?

Off to dig around in me shed to find some feeler gauges :?
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Just spoken to volkspares, apparently they used to retro fit manual tappets. The current gap is massive,I guess nobody has checked them for a while, hopefully quiet it down + a few more horses !
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Well they wouldn't check them with the original sticker still on.
You could put hydraulic lifters back in if they didn't change the camshaft to run on the solid lifters.
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That's exactly why I didn't to start with!

It's only because I saw a sticker half hanging off the the rocker cover, lucky I spotted it.
Quick blast round the block, engine much quieter, feels like a bit more oomph but can't run it much as the cork gaskets are refusing to work, more ordered 8)
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Arripay wrote:That's exactly why I didn't to start with!

It's only because I saw a sticker half hanging off the the rocker cover, lucky I spotted it.
Quick blast round the block, engine much quieter, feels like a bit more oomph but can't run it much as the cork gaskets are refusing to work, more ordered 8)
might need new clips then
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Thanks for the advice, clips added to order!
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