Hi, I followed this advice to the letter on my 1600 aircooled and it seems to be fine, I get the odd noisy tappet now & again but they always seem to go away again. One thing that suprised me was how little oil leaked out when I took the valve covers off (the van was pointing downhill at the time), I assume everything is getting the lubrication its needs as nothing appears to have seized up. Phil T25 ----- Original Message ----- From: <KENWILFY@AOL.COM> To: <vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM> Sent: Wednesday, February 02, 2000 2:09 PM Subject: Re: Fw: Re: Hydraulic valve lifter (mis)operation
> I always set the valves to zero lash when first starting up the motor after > rebuild, or head removal. Let the van run for an hour or so. Then I adjust > the screw in one 360 degree turn (I figure the Bentley folks must've meant > two half turns because two full turns is definately too much). Works every > time. However I haven't done amount of experimenting that other folks have > on the list with backing off the adjusters and checking compression, etc. I > might try that when it gets a little warmer. > > Thanks, > Ken Wilford > http://www.vanagain.com |
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