Hi all. Just some notes for any newbie at valve adjusting. This is for air cooled 2 litre. Use a 6 point socket to loosen the adjuster nuts. If they're on too tight, a combo wrench in a newbies hand, can mess up the nut. Not mention your knucles. (no I didn't!) Bens site suggests making a mark 180 degrees from timing mark on pulley for reference to #4 and #2 cylinders. I did this by lining up timing mark with left fan grille bolt, then used opposite bolt for 180 degree reference. If you're trying to locate a noisy, (collapsed or soft) lifter, you can run the engine without the valve cover(s) on. I thought I'd have a mess of oil coming out with valve cover off. None did during a short run. A question. One lifter is consistently noisy at start up. Play felt "soft" not solid like all the others. I found that its' adjuster screw had to be turned WAY in to take out play. I could see this was wrong. Even then it was hard to judge if play was solid. This was with engine cold. To get a more accurate adjustment, I adjusted all except the soft lifter, (engine cold) put noisy lifter back to it's original setting, then started engine and waited for lifter to quiet down. I figured it was properly (or as good as it gets) filled with oil at that point. After that, when pulling the rocker back to check play, it felt more "solid". I felt that this way I could adjust it more accurately. Was this the wrong way to do it? I understand the right way involves replacing the lifter! --- :)
Cheers, Neil. -- Neil Nicholson. 1981 Air Cooled Westfalia - "Jaco" (Bustorius) Please send me your Vanagon/Westfalia links! http://vanagonlinks.googlepages.com/home |
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