汽车故障检修诊断（MOTOR杂志2010年11期）.pdfVIP

Trouble Shooter Hydraulic valves lifters have been standard equipment on the vast majority of passenger vehicles for decades. Nonhydraulic lifters are making a comeback, spurred by the need for more precise valve control. Sixteen Lashes Thanks for your question, Bill. One thing you I am working on a 2007 Subaru Legacy with a didn’t mention checking were the valve clear- 2.5L SOHC engine that has close to 100,000 ances. Subaru does not publish a valve clear- miles on it. The car appears to have been very ance check or adjustment interval as part of Karl well maintained. However, the engine has an the maintenance schedule for this model. But occasional misfire in cylinder #4 that is hard considering the mileage, it might not be a bad Seyfert to notice most of the time. But it occasionally place to start. Many shops check and/or adjust gets bad enough to trip the MIL and almost the valves when they replace the timing belt, kseyfert@ seems like a dead hole. I have swapped igni- which has a recommended replacement inter- tion coils, spark plugs and fuel injectors, but val of 105 months or 105,000 miles in this the miss always stays at cylinder #4. I per- case. At close to 100,000 miles, your cus- formed a compression test and found cylinder tomer’s engine is getting pretty close to the #4 was at 145 psi, while the other three cylin- recommended interval.