Re: Some details of the 2AZ-FE engine

Leftie wrote:

> 
>    There are two problems with hydraulic lifters: they are more
> expensive to build and, more to the point for us, they tend to fail long
> before the rest of the engine. Who wants to have to spend $1k on new
> lifters on a car with 150k miles on it?


They FAIL before the rest of the engine? Hardly. Ask any mechanic how 
many hydraulic lifters or lash adjusters he's had to replace because the 
lifter or adjuster ITSELF was a root cause of a problem in the last 10 
years and I'll bet you can count the average answer on 1 hand, and if 
you probe further you'll find that those were typically in badly 
neglected sludged-up engines.