I haven't given more than a glance at the heads I took off. I'll check them tomorrow. Suspicious that the bent pushrod was from the side that had pushrod tubes replaced. If I get another year or two from the engine I'll be happy. cheers alistair
On 2013-05-31, at 9:06 PM, Stuart MacMillan wrote: > Nice work! > > Alistair wrote: > > "I forgot to mention before this that I found a bent pushrod when I took the > heads off. If I remember correctly, it was on the side with the (leaking) > spring loaded pushrod tubes. How does a bent pushrod affect the engine if > the valve adjustment is done correctly?" > > It can keep bending! Not a big deal with hydraulic lifters though, at least > to a point. The real question is how did it get bent? Usually that's from > a broken valve, but it could have been a broken spring jamming things up > too. > > Hopefully you will get a lot of miles out of this engine for all the work! > > Stuart > > -----Original Message----- > From: Vanagon Mailing List [mailto:vanagon@gerry.vanagon.com] On Behalf Of > Alistair Bell > Sent: Friday, May 31, 2013 7:42 PM > To: vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM > Subject: that so called quick and dirty head replacement > > Getting close to be finished. Getting tired of it now :) > > blog posts of the ordeal here: > > http://shufti.wordpress.com/ > > alistair |
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