Date: Tue, 19 Dec 95 11:51:57 MST
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From: aburczyk@dres.dnd.ca
Subject: Re: DaBoat 2-liter update - it lives! (long)availability of Cofap piston/liners
Your comment about Cofap going out of the VW piston/liner bussiness just about
gave me a heart attack since I was going to rebuild a 1800cc this winter
sometime. I checked with my part supplier (Bow-wow parts in Surrey BC Canada
1-800-663-6822) and they have lots of Cofap piston/liners sets. His supplier
gets them directly out of Brazil. My current 1700 uses them and I have no
complaints. Of course I was paranoid enough to weight all the pistons, and
check the piston cylinder clearances and the ring end gap but that is just my
way of rebuilding things. About your hydralic lifters, I got a kit from Weber
cams (Not Web-cam) and the instructions stated to run them with air in them from
about 20 minutes with a 0.006 inch clearance (like solid lifters) After the
air was out ( ie unable to compress them at all by prying on the rocker arm
with a screw driver) they could be adjusted to zero clearance. They were
somewhat vague on the preload idea so I adjusted them to zero clearance with
the engine as hot as i could get it. This made them too tight when cold but
at zero lash when the engine was hot. I will probably take them out and look
at them next summer to make sure that they are OK. Can't do it now since the
wife needs the other car (it is cold in Alberta these days) and the van is
needed for the car pool to work.
Does anyone know the 800 number for VW of Canada. I have a 88 Fox and though
there is somesort of recall on it the dealer has been sitting on his hands
about it.
Bye for now
Andy Burczyk
'73 van
'88 Fox
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