Date:         Wed, 11 Jul 2007 14:03:36 -0400
Reply-To:     Pascal Giasson <pascal.giasson@GNB.CA>
Sender:       Vanagon Mailing List <vanagon@gerry.vanagon.com>
From:         Pascal Giasson <pascal.giasson@GNB.CA>
Subject:      Re: Hydraulic lifter wear/cleaning question

Thanks for the tip on checking for wear.  BTW I started off just going to
replace the very small leaky head gaskets. The motor ran strong with good
compression and leak down test results and good oil presssure.  Well one
thing lead to another...as some of you have noticed by some of my
questions.  What I ended up doing was opening "pandoras box" like my
friend Mike Collum put it.  I want to replace whatever is past it's wear
limits (rings, clutch, coroded head studs, valve job, crank endplay
shims), but I have to draw a line somewhere, otherwise I will end up with
a completelly rebuilt engine when all I started doing was a head gasket
job.  This kind of reminds me of our house renovation project.  We had to
draw a line and stick to it otherwise all those little add ons, however
small and seemingly insignificant, adds up to alot in the end.  Like Ben
H. often says "these things are getting old".  I guess I just feel like I
have to explain why I just don't buy all new head studs, cap nuts,
lifters, pistons, cylinder heads if mine are servisable and worked fine
before I started tearing things apart.  If I had to pay for the work, yes
I would put in new, too darn labour intensive to clean everything.  Also,
throughtout the course of this job I bought a 2.1 that I hope to have
servisable should my "frugality" prove to be a mistake (it was originally
supposed to replace the 1.9 but that did not work out).  Anyway, thanks
for all your advice to date...I am listening...however, having a science
backgroound I always ask myself why when someone suggest doing "this"
or "that"...so that I understand why I am doing something or why I am
replacing a part.

Pascal
'84 westy