what to do?

I have a 2001 Alero, wtih the 3400, and I start it up in the morning and it has a really loud, what my mechanic called a "lifter slap". Now the car only has 81,500 miles on it, is there something that I can do to help fix/get rid of that?

[AGT]

Replace the lifter ...not gonna be cheap

[AsianAlero]

Does it go away as the car warms up? I had maybe the same thing happen to mine but recently I had a new engine put in cuz one morning it wasn't even cold out, the noise was there and it wouldn't go away even when the car warmed up. I got on the highway to go home cuz I was leaving for a vacation that day the car is smoking and dies when I get off at an exit shop tell me all the oil leaked out and the motor locked up.

[jackal2000]

it might be piston slap which is notorious on the 3400 but lifter tick is not out of the question either.

Yes, it does go away after the car warms up!

[sound_xtreme]

if it's lifter tick, change the oil and check you coolant level, you may be leakin dexcool into the oil.

if it's piston slap, it's normal

[Redog]

^^ Yeah, just rolled over 82K here, car's done that since it had 35K on it