Valve adjustments - shims

[v8volvo]

Why do you want to put a solid lifter head on? More power? We never got the hydraulic ones here so I have never had a chance to see how they run.

I also scored an original Volvo shim set, and a Hazet depressor and K-D pliers a few years ago... I was happy. But yes, any VW or Audi shim will work, they are all the same. A machine shop that works on VW and Audi engines ought to have a pile of the shims around too. You should not have too much trouble finding those.

A member on here (TinMan) has a set of shims and a good Hazet depressor tool that he is selling... but he is here in the US so shipping would probably be prohibitive.

If you have found an Audi man, he will almost surely have what you need. Good luck!

[IceV_760]

v8volvo:

I want solid lifters for few reasons. To start, hydraulic lifters got stuck on these engines because
all little "trash" on oil, which these engines seems to form some amount.
And when these got stuck, like mine, they make an horrible noice ( imagine d24t's sound twice as sharp ).
When stucked, valve adjustments also are anything you can imagine, but not what intented.
They cost alot also. And stucked ones have broken cam's. So theres no benefit on hydraulics,
only "benefit" being they dont need adjustment, until they got stucked, and then theyll need replacing.
Solid lifters are what they are: needs adjusting sometimes, but theyll definitetly do the work as intented forever and ever.

EDIT: BTW! Biggest reason. Atleast on finland, are sold brand-new cylinder heads.
One with solid lifters and full ( including valves and everything you need to add to " raw head" )
costs 1160€, and with hydraulics costs 1360€. They are non inter-changeable also.