What gets me here is for years now we all have bin searching for some kind of cure to the ticking problem. Even if the problem consists of several factors all of which need to be addressed one at a time to have some results. So for years we have bin playing with lifters, pre-load, etc etc etc. Now, a member from a different forum discovered a area that is a potential cause of some of the noise. And all of a sudden folks are piping up on this forum and saying "oh ya, we have bin doing this for years now. Not a new thing. We keep this close to our sleeve. The rest of you can F-off and keep ticking down the road" You knew for years, and kept it from the rest. Shame on you.
I can easily see two sides to this question. If someone participates here solely as a vendor; i.e., a salesman offering his wares and services, than he is (assumed to be) participating in the vendor section and it's obvious what his intent is. In that case all bets are off and the community of riders and owners here know what the deal is and make their informed choices accordingly.
If, conversely, a vendor represents himself as and participates as a member of the community and in so doing hears, repeatedly and at length, of a problem that many of his community members are dealing with than, as a peer/community member/fellow rider most would assume that sharing a known and relatively easily potential solution would be expected. The guy that wouldn't do this would be the same type of guy that would, just to look good, repeatedly make uncited and potentially suspect claims in reflexive response to others, might actually wish ill will or accident on a rider who publicly disagreed with him or might even go right on by you when broke down on the side of the road because, well, you're not spending your money with
him.
There's a difference between a salesman solely trying to look good and make his next buck off of you on the one hand and a fellow rider who has also has a shop on the other. I'm just glad we, as a riding group, have collected several of the latter here and so few of the former.