Cleaned the throttle body. Found the front two VLOM bolts loose. I snugged them up and put things back together. It doesn’t look to be too hard to take the intake off and retorque them. Just need to find a day to do it.
there's a theory that loose bolts are the cause of afm lifters sticking. it says being loose allows oil to leak internally on its way to the litter, over time the lack of lubrication inside the lifter, the plunger starts to gaul up and sticks. very tight tolerance in there.
no clue if it's true, but if you have active afm, probably worth tightening. if you don't have afm, eh they are always loose on every ls with any miles on them. my ls3 had some so loose you could take them out with your fingers at 100k. but eh, no afm so nothing to hurt.