97 2.3 head replacement question
Hello,
Just finished replacing a cracked head on a 97 2.3 with a fresh reman head. The reman came with the cam, lifters, and rockers installed. I lubed all of the cam lobes with assembly lube prior to putting the cover on. I lined up the cam and oil pump marks= triangle on cam and diamond on pump (noted that marks were about 1/8" advanced on both the cam and pump pulleys compared to the mark on the crank) I finished putting the intake plugs, wires, vacuum lines, the emissions stuff etc. back together. I decided to test fire it and see what happened.It cranked about 3 times and fired running smoothly but with alot of clatter from the lifters. I ran it for 3 seconds and killed it- due to not having a radiator. Is it normal to have some clatter from a new head on initial startup?
Thanks,
Derek
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