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How do you tell if your lifters are bad in your car?
In most cases, you can tell that your lifters are bad, in your car engine, by the ticking noise. A bad lifter will make a tapping sound.
What can cause a car to shake after you start it?
a bad engine
How does a car act when lifter are bad?
Depends on how the lifter has failed. In most all cases you will have loss of power and there may or may not be a ticking or tapping noise. There will be a "misfire" in the cylinder that has the bad lifter, There is loss of fuel economy. The car will fail emissions testing.
What is a car hoist?
a car lifter or a motor lifter
Could bad spark plugs make a engine shake?
Bad engine cushions can make the engine shake. bad spark plugs cause malfunction as the car starts running.
Can a bad EGR valve cause the engine to backfire?
It can cause massive Engine failure and blow up the whole car, so be careful.
What causes the car to be sluggish?
Many things can cause a car to be sluggish like dirty air filter, check engine light came on, bad transmission, bad engine, etc.
Will bad spark plugs and plug wires make your car vibrate?
Yes, bad spark pugs or plug wires can cause the engine cylinder to misfire which will cause the engine to vibrate.
How does a car act when a rocker arm breaks?
Rocker arms dont break. Pushrods bend and lifters malfunction, but rocker arms rarely if ever go bad. A bad lifter will make an obnoxious taptaptap noise. A bent lifter will cause significant backfiring through the carb or fuel induction system.
Can bad brakes cause your car to overheat?
No completely separate from engine/cooling system
Will a bad ignition coil in a 2000 town car cause the car not to start?
Yes, a bad coil will prevent the ignition from firing and the engine will not start.
What would cause a tapping noise in a car engine?
that means you need more oil. it could also be a sticky lifter or slightly bent push rod or even the tappets out of adjustment
