Date: Fri, 31 Jan 2003 23:53:35 -0600
Reply-To: Stan Wilder <wilden1@JUNO.COM>
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From: Stan Wilder <wilden1@JUNO.COM>
Subject: Re: Adjusting Valves 78 Air Cooled
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Well Dennis .......... take it lightly, I was just ribbing you.
I adjusted the valves at 1 turn down, cranked the engine ......... no
compression ......... no start.
I adjusted the valves at .006 (Boston Bob's hydraulic lifter technique)
and just by chance the same for solid lifters. Tom Wilson's book says the
same / .006.
All is well on the Texas front, the van cranks and runs well it just has
'a' lifter chatter, exactly like before I started adjusting. They quieten
some after about 15 minutes of engine warm up but never get quite silent.
I have been advised that if solid lifters get completely quiet then they
need readjustment.
Although the lifter adjustment was cutting into my nap time at 2 PM I
still managed to notice that the lifters / rockers had a slight clearance
when they were cold before I started.
All type IV engines don't have hydraulic lifters ................ today I
found one with solid lifters.
I also bought a set of solid lifters and push rods from a 75 Type IV
about two weeks ago.
The owner claims that this is the original engine although she isn't the
first owner and she's just repeating what she was told.
Stan Wilder
On Sat, 01 Feb 2003 00:22:38 -0500 Dennis Haynes <dhaynes@optonline.net>
writes:
> I'm not sure how to take this comment, but if you have the proper
> engine
> and it has not been modified, you have hydraulic lifters. In fact,
> it is
> the same lifter used up to the '91 Vanagons. I think '76 was the
> only
> year to get solid lifters in the 2.0L.
>
> Dennis
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Stan Wilder [mailto:wilden1@juno.com]
> Sent: Friday, January 31, 2003 11:57 PM
> To: dhaynes@optonline.net
> Cc: vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM
> Subject: Re: Adjusting Valves 78 Air Cooled
>
> Listen here Dennis!
> I post something serious only about once a month.
> I expect you to get out your books and research this stuff and
> report
> back to me.
>
> Stan Wilder
>
> On Fri, 31 Jan 2003 23:12:13 -0500 Dennis Haynes
> <dhaynes@OPTONLINE.NET>
> writes:
> > Shouldn't a '78 have hydraulic lifters? Adjust accordingly.
> >
> > Dennis
> >
> >
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Vanagon Mailing List [mailto:vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM] On
> > Behalf
> > Of Stan Wilder
> > Sent: Friday, January 31, 2003 6:00 PM
> > To: vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM
> > Subject: Adjusting Valves 78 Air Cooled
> >
> > Subject: 1987 Bay, with type IV air-cooled FI engine, solid
> > lifters.
> > Question: Valve setting .006 do these things ever get real quiet
> or
> > should I always hear some chatter?
> > I'd expect some noise when its cold and I've got that.
> > After idling for 15 minutes; Shouldn't they get quieter.
> > I know they do on the 66 Splittie.
> >
> > Stan Wilder
> >
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