Are lifters a common problem on chevy malibu 3100

Nov 05, 2009

- Paul, I will say that i do try to not change the oil every 3000 becuse some say it is over maintaining. The car has 90000 mi and i just got done replacing lower intake gasket and it ran fine for about three months now on the way to work it just started to misfire and tick with no problems before. You say to set the valves but there is no setting to them it is torque to 19ftlb and 30 degree. could you explain. I took off the valve covers and expected to make sure they didn't come lose but nothing they all are tight and there seem to be alittle play in two rockers i will turn engine over see if those two are still lose or if others come lose. any other help would be great i am thinking about runing trans fluid through it to maybe clean it out do you agree?