If you're into wrenching, you might have heard of roller and flat tappet cams, but what's the difference between the two, and why choose one over the other?

The global automotive tappets market exhibited moderate growth during 2015-2020. An automotive tappet, also known as valve lifter or cam follower, is a small automotive component inserted between the ...

Picking the right valvetrain for your engine can be a daunting task. Solid flat tappet, hydraulic flat tappet, solid roller, hydraulic roller; these are the choices, made even more difficult due to ...

Dublin, Oct. 16, 2023 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- The "Automotive Tappets Market: Global Industry Trends, Share, Size, Growth, Opportunity and Forecast 2023-2028" report has been added to ...

Noisy tappets (also known as hydraulic lifters) are relatively common on engines that have done their fair share of work. By using oil pressure generated from the engine’s oil pump, the hydraulic ...

On engines equipped with hydraulic tappets, zero lash at maximum tappet plunger rise can be determined by rotating the pushrod with your fingertips while slowly turning the lash adjusting nut. The ...

How are the tappets in my Rover 416 1.6-litre twin cam engine adjusted? I've got a Rover 416 1.6 twin cam. Recently my tappets have got noisy and I was told by the garage that it has self-adjusting ...