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Fun with a hammer and a lifter.
Well if you checked the link above to the Audi forum about taking apart hydraulic lifters you can probably guess what I just did...
I took apart 8 of my lifters! With a hammer! And two pieces of soft pine and a soft towel/ rag. Here is the video: YouTube
I found they still had oil in the centres. I think this is the spot ware they get stuck and start making noise. So getting the break clean in there is kind of important to get them to be quiet again. I put them back to soak in the Varsol and break clean I had them.
I may get at cleaning them tomorrow. I only did the 8 exhaust lifters so far because I only have the one ice cream bucket with a lid for them to soak in. There actually in some type of order in there... The intake ones are on the bottom and they both start with #1 cylinder in the first row, L and R then 2nd row L and R, etc.
I should probably warn people that this may ruin your lifters. So don't try this at home.
Here is a picture of the first one I got apart.