You mean Legacy, Liberty is a Jeep model. Try some additives such as Lucas engine treatment, otherwise you'll have to replace the noisy tappet, not so bad to do on a 2.2 (fairly roomy compared to the DOHC 2.5 L engine). Ed B
Rattly Liberty
Oct 23, 2003
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Live with it, its not doing any harm. Some ways to minimise it though is to buy some lifter freer from your Subaru agent around NZ$30 and use some MoterUp - it quite good stuff. They tend to get noisy about 500km before a service ( a nice reminder to get you oil changed) and will settle down after a couple hundred km after you change your oil. (i have done 100,000km with intermittent lifter noise) Mike PS A Legacy is called a Liberty in Australia becouse of some naming issue they have with Mitsubishi.
I have a 1991 2.2l Liberty which has noisy tappets in the left bank. The car has 90,000kms. I have changed the oil with Havoline 10W-30 after using Wynns engine flush. The rattles continue what should I do next?. tHANKS
Liberty seems to be an Aussie name. Thanks Ian
Thanks Mike, you have confirmed what my local mechanic said its a Subaru thing. regards Ian
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