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• Re: Spring Cleaning an Aircooled Motor
  Historical mailing list - Stan Wilder
  Wed, 19 Mar 2003 20:01:12 -0600
  ...can remove the pushrod covers and spray > Gunk up > > into that area to clean the sides of the case and pushrod covers. > > After I...
• Re: Oil leak - '91 Carat - 2'1L
  Historical mailing list - Stuart MacMillan
  Sun, 21 Dec 2014 12:38:44 -0800
  ...possible rusted-through pushrod tube if you live in that kind of environment.
• RE: Better than stickers
  Historical mailing list - William R. Kennedy, NJIT CIAT, 201-596-5648
  Wed, 7 Feb 96 12:56:37 EST
  ...you had your foot in its cast and were drumming on an air cleaner with a pair of pushrods, and another guy was carrying...
• WANTED - km/h speedo head
  Historical mailing list - Miguel Calvin
  Sat, 24 Jun 2000 12:43:50 -0400
  ...Would any of you like to sell me a km/h head? Perhaps someone needs a set of screw-expanding pushrod tubes for 1600...
• Re: Pushrod tube seal question
  Historical mailing list - Jack Reed
  Thu, 23 May 1996 09:35:00 -0600 (MDT)
  Thanks, David. The fit on the tubes w/seals, both old and new, was so snug that using a well rounded off vice grip...
• Re: vanagon Digest - 25 Mar 2001 to 26 Mar 2001 - Special issue (#2001-370)
  Historical mailing list - Matthew Pollard
  Mon, 26 Mar 2001 12:21:02 -0800
  ...I had a bug with a busted pushrod cover leak all of it's juices in my folks driveway! Yikes. After cleaning up the...
• Re: FS: Roller Tip Rockers (Pauter 1.3)
  Historical mailing list - Mick Kalber
  Tue, 8 May 2001 20:30:49 -1000
  > The total original purchase cost to me of the rockers, chrome moly > pushrods, and the platinum plugs was $379 to Robert. I'll be...
• WANTED: Exhaust Manifold
  Historical mailing list - Jack Lockamy
  Sun, 24 Jun 2001 15:46:55 -0700
  ...square" exhaust ports on the heads and extends down past the pushrods tubes. No heat exchanger, mufflers, etc. required. Just the exhaust flanges and...
• rebuilt head and rocker arm clearance
  Historical mailing list - Robert Tippey
  Thu, 28 Jun 2001 23:39:51 EDT
  ...BTW the pushrods were definately seated in the lifters. Has anyone else run into this problem? If so, what was the solution? Can a...
• Re: nice '85 single cab FS on samba
  Historical mailing list
  Sun, 10 Sep 2006 23:15:03 EDT
  ...not the first van i've seen driving around without the pushrod tube shield tin on.. need some? ive got a pile.. still looks...
• Re: Unknown Vanagon 2.1L Engine Part
  Historical mailing list - Jim Felder
  Wed, 29 Jul 2015 21:16:35 +0000
  It belongs between the block or head and the end of a pushrod tube. Hope you didn't leave it out! Jiggle each tube...
• Re: Bummed and need advise about my 87 Vanagon
  Historical mailing list
  Mon, 17 Aug 1998 16:08:40 EDT
  ...I am almost postive that your problem is that the pushrod is not centered in the lifter properly. I bought a Vanagon that wouldn...
• Re: westy bug screens into vanagon?
  Historical mailing list - Rusty Johnson
  Mon, 1 May 2000 14:01:53 EDT
  ...Ogden, UT '80 WedgeFalia -- The Vanagon Valdiz (I really need to get around to those pushrod seals...)
• Re: how to remove driver's side "engine tin" pushrod cover
  Historical mailing list - John Carpenter
  Sat, 23 Jul 2005 07:44:15 EDT
  PS: When the time does come to remove the nut or bolt, and you've been soaking it as previously posted, Work the bolt...
• Re: V8 into Vanagon?
  Historical mailing list - Andrew Grebneff
  Wed, 1 Feb 2006 18:12:16 +1300
  ...This is a light and very compact all-alloy pushrod engine, about 175hp with a carburettor (injected ones were more powerful). -- Andrew Grebneff Dunedin...
• Re: Increased WBX displacement
  Historical mailing list - Al Knoll
  Mon, 8 Sep 2008 08:20:14 -0700
  ...However more modern motors, Subaru and Ford included, installed instead of a modified pushrod WBX, do fit the bill. (sometimes a large bill) However...
• Re: Engine Tin's Needed
  Historical mailing list - Old Volks Home
  Mon, 25 May 2009 13:17:40 -0700
  ...robertmstewart@mac.com>wrote: > Thanks to everyone for your offers. > > Got Pushrod tube protector tins off the Samba for $10 each and $15 for...
• Help! Overheating
  Historical mailing list - zyno
  Sat, 16 May 1998 11:48:19 -0400
  ...Its the plug adjacent to the coolant drain on the bottom of the head, between the pushrod tubes. After I vented the coolant and...
• Empty Lifter
  Historical mailing list - Vince Jahn
  Tue, 9 Nov 2004 01:05:28 -0800
  ...I was thinking of pouring some oil down the tube and then pushing on the lifter numerous times with the pushrod to see if...
• Re: Mr Lube / Walmart oil changes OK? I have the 'Mahn' OEM Oil Filter....
  Historical mailing list - Jeff Palmer
  Tue, 24 Oct 2006 22:16:42 -0500
  ...I blew out the pushrod tube but they paid for me to have it fixed at a garage of my choice. They screwed up...
• FS Type IV High Lift cam, lifters, push rods.
  Historical mailing list - Stan Wilder
  Mon, 30 Dec 2002 08:53:47 -0600
  ...Asking $150.00 for the cam, solid lifters and aluninum solid lifter pushrods. With the cam gear installed add $20.00. The cam still...
• Clutch pedal repair question
  Historical mailing list - Jean-Woo Kim
  Tue, 24 Aug 2004 22:38:24 -0700
  On my 87 GL Wolfsburg, I suspect severe wear on the roll pin that connect the actual clutch pedal and the pushrod on the...
• F.S. 1.9 Need 2.0 air cooled
  Historical mailing list - thomas LaPointe
  Sat, 18 Aug 2007 09:26:35 -0500
  ...it is not pretty due to the midwest salt, it has rebuilt not new heads and new pushrod tubes are ev ident. I am...
• Re: Smelly Heat
  Historical mailing list
  Tue, 04 Mar 1997 09:50:57
  ...side) it could be valve cover gaskets or pushrod tube seals, neither of which is difficult or expensive to repair. If it's on...
• '81 VW rebuild report
  Historical mailing list - Richard A. Jones
  Tue, 12 Dec 1995 16:52:32 -0700
  ...No work on engine other than pushrod tube seals on each side at different times. Starting about 90,000 miles, I noticed a loss...
• Re: Driving w/ noisy lifter??
  Historical mailing list - Gregg Scharff
  Thu, 11 Jun 1998 12:58:17 -0400
  ...Internally, what is happening is that the pushrod is impacting the top of the lifter because it is not filled with oil expanding it...
• Head gasket replacement (83.5 Westy)
  Historical mailing list - Joe L.
  Tue, 25 Aug 1998 20:42:02 -0400
  ...When I removed the plate that covers the pushrod tubes and started the engine I saw that the source of the leak seemed to...
• Oil pressure switch and unidentified black tube
  Historical mailing list - Ben McCafferty
  Wed, 12 Dec 2001 20:37:00 -0800
  ...On the 89, with the sheet metal off under the pushrod tubes, I noticed something peculiar. The oil pressure switch on the driver's...
• pushrod leak question
  Historical mailing list - Tom Corbitt
  Fri, 2 Aug 2002 12:39:48 -0400
  ...The bumper and end caps are history, and I seem to have developed a leak at/around my left front pushrod tube. It doesn...
• Re: Overheated, now what?
  Historical mailing list - Rusty Johnson
  Sun, 7 May 2000 23:29:23 EDT
  ...Rusty J. '80 Westy -- the Vanagon Valdiz (Ok, I'll get to those pushrod seals NEXT weekend!)
• Re: How easy is it to remove the intake runnersw ith the engine installed ?
  Historical mailing list - Roger Sisler
  Tue, 27 Dec 2005 16:19:47 -0500
  ...The rubber is under pressure and dosnt want to come out.The delicate part of the demalition is done.I think a pushrod tube...
• Re: Replacing pushrod tubes
  Historical mailing list
  Thu, 17 Jun 1999 16:05:24 EDT
  There must have been some mistake when you ordered this part. I sell the same collapsable push rod tubes that Ron does for $19...
• Re: Non-collapsible pushrod tube installation
  Historical mailing list - Steven Denis
  Sun, 4 Feb 2001 16:27:27 EST
  In a message dated 2/4/01 12:29:22 PM Eastern Standard Time, scholten@NEWWAVE.NET writes: << . I asked if the non-collapsible...
• 200K on original engine?!?
  Historical mailing list - Kelley McDaniel
  Fri, 9 Nov 2001 10:04:37 -0600
  ...It needs a pushrod seal and a tune-up and drips a drop of antifreeze once a week whether it needs to or not...
• Re: oil consumption
  Historical mailing list - John Brush
  Wed, 29 May 2002 15:18:46 -0400
  ...Is there a way to discover if it is the pushrod tubes, or something worse? John
• Re: how to remove driver's side "engine tin" pushrod cover
  Historical mailing list - John Carpenter
  Sat, 23 Jul 2005 07:27:38 EDT
  In a message dated 7/22/2005 2:59:41 P.M. Pacific Daylight Time, zolo@FOXINTERNET.NET writes: how many people have broken...
• Replacing Lifters
  Historical mailing list - tabe johnson
  Mon, 6 Jun 2005 21:50:10 -0400
  ...What you have to do is take off the valve covers, remove the rocker arms, pull out all the pushrods, break off the pushrod...
• Re: Van Sale
  Historical mailing list - Project Pat
  Thu, 25 Jul 2013 23:00:06 -0400
  And solid lifters with chromoly pushrods. Not sure why they did that. -----Original Message----- From: Vanagon Mailing List [mailto:vanagon@gerry.vanagon.com] On...
• Re: questions...
  Historical mailing list
  Thu, 16 May 1996 08:33:40
  ...in the bus? YES. >2) Is it possible to replace the pushrod tube seals with the engine in. YES. Unlike with a type 1...
• Re: Lets do Engine Rebuilding Math!
  Historical mailing list - Kim Brennan
  Fri, 25 Oct 2002 15:17:49 -0400
  ...1 set of new lifters- $72 > 1 reground cam- $80 > 8 pushrod tubes- $72 > Total- $1658 The stupid system analyst in me asks...are...
• Late type 4 bus engine tin needed!
  Historical mailing list - Vanagon man
  Mon, 30 Dec 2002 07:03:50 -0500
  ...you remove to access the thermostat, more or less protects the pushrods.... Also need from an air-cooled vanagon, the left hand solid piece...
• Re: Update: hard start, for 2 years!
  Historical mailing list - David Johnson
  Mon, 30 Apr 2007 11:18:55 -0600
  ...However, I was still able to spin the pushrods so they weren't > super tight. I backed them out to about 0.006 and...
• Re: 2.1 L Oil cooler seal and pushrod tube replacement
  Historical mailing list - Dennis Haynes
  Thu, 12 Feb 2015 21:02:27 -0500
  ...2.1 L Oil cooler seal and pushrod tube replacement I guess I''m a little confused. My pulley has two marks - one is...
• Re: push rods
  Historical mailing list - Bradley Flubacher
  Sun, 18 Mar 2001 14:53:18 -0500
  ...There are collapsable pushrod tubes that can be gotten for about $20 each. After you've done it once, you can replace a tube...
• 81 Air cooled, famous for leaking oil where?
  Historical mailing list - Paul Guzyk
  Mon, 20 Dec 2004 07:52:30 -0800
  ...What usually leaks oil on these beasts? Pushrod tubes? Rear crank seal? (rear of van, front of engine) Oil pump seal? Oil cooler? Engine...
• Re: Head gaskets
  Historical mailing list - "Paul Lindsay,Summit Resources/Triad Sportswear"
  Fri, 14 Jul 2000 13:56:01 -0600
  ...all the pushrod tube seals on the 1972-1983 buses are pretty much the same (just bigger in later years). joel
• Re: Oil pressure sender
  Historical mailing list - Larry Alofs
  Sun, 25 Nov 2012 18:13:05 -0500
  ...Can any one tell me the size of the socket I need > to > locate to remove the oil pressure sender between the pushrod tubes...
• Re: Porsche 4.0
  Historical mailing list - Andrew Grebneff
  Wed, 1 Mar 2000 12:11:38 +1300
  ...One of these could be fitted to a Vanagon ( I once put a pushrod 3.4 Toyota V8 into a 1975 van), and would...
• hydrolic lifter adjustment
  Historical mailing list - Doug Mahone
  Thu, 12 Jul 2001 19:44:27 -0500
  ...Will this be a problem? I thought maybe the pushrod tube might not be seated in the lifter correctly. I will check it with...
• Re: Disposal of old watery gasoline??
  Historical mailing list - Stan Wilder
  Sat, 26 Jul 2003 17:03:51 -0700
  I've been in attack mode and replaced the pushrod seals, the sump plate O ring, the strainer plate O rings and retorqued every...
• <no subject>
  Historical mailing list - Nathaniel Poole
  Tue, 17 Oct 2006 17:55:18 -0700
  I got my engine pulled today and have given it a good going over, and the typical leaks are there-pushrod seals, rocker cover...
• drain plugs - coolant - what now?
  Historical mailing list - Jeff Hartman
  Sun, 12 Oct 2008 10:28:08 -0800
  Hi, In attempting my first complete replacement of coolant for my 2.1 86 vanagon, Bentley points to the drain plugs between the pushrod...
• Re: Confused owner?
  Historical mailing list - Andrew Grebneff
  Wed, 19 Oct 2005 13:44:07 +1300
  ...How many ways are there to make an iron pushrod straight-6 or V8?? Hardly Drivables are copies of Indians. The Japanese did NOT...
• Re: pushrod from auto. trans to throttle - Cannot get spring back
  Historical mailing list - David Beierl
  Tue, 13 Dec 2011 15:30:22 -0500
  At 03:13 PM 12/13/2011, John Lauterbach wrote: >override spring back on. I have the right e-clip ready to go, but...
• Metal shavings under valve covers
  Historical mailing list - David Bayer
  Mon, 9 Mar 1998 12:11:30 -0800
  ...found clunks of metal (I think it was aluminum) littering the pushrods, rocker arms, and valve springs. Thus, I know that head needs to...
• Re: Oil Light never glows
  Historical mailing list - David Beierl
  Tue, 19 Sep 2000 12:18:38 -0400
  Don't start with the least likely part...check the wire and sender between the pushrod tubes on the left side of the engine...
• Re: I get no respect
  Historical mailing list - Tracey Estevez
  Sun, 4 Apr 2004 15:26:00 -0400
  ...My only consolation comes from the current state of a leaky pushrod tube that sprays a fine mist of 40-weight on the front...
• Re: 84 oil gunk in coolant
  Historical mailing list - Al and Sue Brase
  Sun, 17 Oct 2004 11:02:12 -0500
  ...And the DO protect the pushrod tubees from flying debris. The value of the outer sheilds on the side of the engine bay is...
• Re: DJ-code WBX technical specs
  Historical mailing list - Zeitgeist
  Sat, 20 Dec 2008 14:53:38 -0800
  ...com> wrote: > > but kids, it's STILL just an 8 valve pushrod engine with a joke head gasket > system. > Numerous more modern engines are...
• Contents of Head Gasket Kit 025 198 102A 025198102A (repost)
  Historical mailing list - tabe johnson
  Tue, 29 Mar 2005 15:12:48 -0500
  ...No sealant 15) Pushrod tube seals (inner) Permatex 518 or any gasket goop. 16) Pushrod tube seals (outer) same sealant as (15) 17) tiny...