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Old 12-20-2011, 11:32 AM
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Question Replace all lifters or just the bad ones??

We've got one or several real noisy lifters (or what ever there called by MB) in our 3.5L 2003. It has 86,000 miles & has had regular oil changes within the proper miles (with Mobil 1 0-40) however apparently this was not enough with the short trips that my wife uses it. Next time around I will be changing about every 4500 miles IMO. Anyway, the dealer dumped the oil & added a qt of ATF to try & clean it, then I changed this after a week of running & used Mobil 1 0-30 with a qt. of Rislone. None of this has done any good yet. I don't think it will. They say that these arn't conventional hyd lifters like I am use to in an old V-8?, you don't change them all, is this right? Should we just change out the bad 1 or 2 on the pass. bank & forget about the others till they go bad? Or should we do them all? I don't know the cost difference yet but oviously it would be cheaper to change 1 or 2 on the same bank rather than doing them all. There still checking with the tech. & haven't advised me yet. What's the opionions out there?. At this point were a little "tight" & would rather not do them all if we can get away with it. Thanks
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