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• Re: Valve adjustment advice
  Historical mailing list - Dennis Haynes
  Mon, 14 Dec 2015 00:28:49 -0500
  ...That way you will feel when the tension is off the pushrod without getting anything so loose the push rod can fall out. If...
• Re: How to remove pushrod tube shield??
  Historical mailing list - Stuart MacMillan
  Mon, 28 Aug 2000 10:06:17 -0700
  ...In order to have a > better look at the bottom of the head gasket, it appears that one must > remove the pushrod tube shield...
• Re: Gas pedal push rod comes unseated
  Historical mailing list - Stephen Grisanti
  Sat, 3 Oct 2009 11:32:29 -0700
  ...leading up to it and never found a reason for the pushrod to have come loose and it hasn't happened again.� Various Vanagon...
• Air Cool Pushrod Tube Install
  Historical mailing list - John Reynolds
  Sun, 21 Mar 1999 10:22:10 EST
  Help! - I just can't get seem to get the these things to seat properly. The Haynes and Wilson book just says push them...
• Re: Clutch pedal engagement
  Historical mailing list - David Brodbeck
  Mon, 12 May 2003 13:01:40 -0400
  ...travel, so I don't think it's a master cylinder pushrod problem. I was thinking maybe my clutch disc was just getting thin...
• Re: Very Long...What am I, nuts? New 85 and Philosophy of Car ownership...very long
  Historical mailing list - Roger Sisler
  Wed, 17 Aug 2005 10:50:01 -0400
  ...year.As for the oil leaking, so what?This is probably pushrod tubes.Get an antifreeze tester and see what the concentration of antifreeze...
• Re: Coolant leak from the engine!
  Historical mailing list - Paul Guzyk
  Sun, 17 Jun 2007 20:14:07 -0700
  ...If not leaking by the oil cooler, Next step would be to remove the pushrod tin to see for sure where it is leaking...
• Re: Head sealants??
  Historical mailing list - Benny boy
  Thu, 25 Jan 2007 11:27:53 -0500
  ...You guys think that Vanagon leaks, let me tell you that Bus's leak oil like crasy! i have tried everything on the pushrod...
• Re: What threads on oil pressure gauge?
  Historical mailing list - tabe johnson
  Tue, 25 Jan 2005 02:04:59 -0500
  ...I want to use > the hole between the #3 and #4 pushrod > tubes, right? > > I assumed the hole in the case had tapered > threads...
• Re: how to remove driver's side "engine tin" pushrod cover
  Historical mailing list - Ben S
  Wed, 20 Jul 2005 09:45:07 -0700
  great advice guys..... can't believe i didn't think of it already! especially since i already got a replacement tin, so if i...
• Re: clutch pedal
  Historical mailing list - Stan Wilder
  Tue, 12 Apr 2005 16:41:38 -0500
  ...clutch pedal > While installing new clutch cylinder I noticed lots of free play in > clevis pin pushrod.Closer look revealed worn out hole for...
• Re: how to remove driver's side "engine tin" pushrod cover
  Historical mailing list - Larry Alofs
  Wed, 20 Jul 2005 17:16:14 -0500
  Ben S wrote: > great advice guys..... can't believe i didn't think of it already! > especially since i already got a replacement tin...
• Re: Lifter adjustment... How can I tell if they are really hydraulics?
  Historical mailing list - David Kao
  Mon, 23 Mar 2009 17:26:20 -0700
  ...It may well be that you have to > destroy a > pushrod tube and replace it with the telescoping kind.
• Re: Lifter question
  Historical mailing list - Mike
  Sat, 9 Aug 2008 11:34:01 -0400
  ...I can > stand > them on end and try to push a pushrod down into them, but the valves don't > move. There's no...
• Re: 6 mils of lash...
  Historical mailing list - David Beierl
  Sat, 8 Jan 2000 04:31:57 -0500
  ...through the check ball until the piston is stopped by the pushrod hitting the rocker arm. All the oil pressure in the gallery does...
• Re: Heads
  Historical mailing list - Jim Felder
  Mon, 21 Feb 2005 20:22:55 -0600
  ...For one thing, if you managed to do the adjustment with one or more of the pushrods "hung" on the opening to the lifter...
• Re: Timing belt change frequency?
  Historical mailing list
  Sun, 25 May 1997 11:47:29 -0700
  ...Vanagons don't have fancy things like timing belts -- they have a gear-driven single camshaft with pushrods -- like all boxer VW's since...
• Re: Bummed and need advise about my 87 Vanagon
  Historical mailing list - kenneth d lewis
  Mon, 17 Aug 1998 12:08:07 EDT
  ...Morris" <Jbmorris@RA.ROCKWELL.COM> writes: >....I replaced a pushrod tube on my Vanagon >Saturday and it was succesful. >To make a long story...
• Re: Late type 4 bus engine tin needed!
  Historical mailing list - Mike Boland
  Mon, 30 Dec 2002 15:03:29 -0600
  ...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: 2.1 L push rods
  Historical mailing list - Ken Wilford
  Mon, 9 Feb 2015 16:31:55 -0500
  ...But this has to be fixed. >> Anyone have two or four pushrods from a junked 2.1 L that they care >> to part with...
• Re: rebuild or 5 cyl?
  Historical mailing list - Coby Smolens
  Sat, 26 Jun 1999 16:44:07 -0700
  ...I have seen bent pushrods wear holes in pushrod tubes more than once, but if your engine is otherwise running fine and nothing unusual...
• Re: how to remove driver's side "engine tin" pushrod cover
  Historical mailing list - millo fenzi
  Wed, 20 Jul 2005 08:46:37 -0700
  ...how to remove driver's side "engine tin" pushrod cover Ben, Your trepidation is well warranted. The archives are filled with tales of woe...
• Re: Aftermarket rocker arms?
  Historical mailing list
  Wed, 6 Sep 1995 20:31:27 -0400
  ...The set I purchased was less than $100.00, and are actual VW forgings that have the socket for the end of the pushrod...
• Tip for anyone installing 30mm oil pump on vanagon air cooled engine.
  Historical mailing list - Vanagon Man
  Sat, 13 Mar 2004 17:16:01 -0500
  Volks, I recently have finished my rebuild of my 2 liter vanagon engine...............big valve heads , mechanical ceramic lifters, cut to length pushrods (to...
• Re: Problem with push rod tube seals?
  Historical mailing list - Stuart MacMillan
  Wed, 22 Jun 2016 09:57:33 -0700
  ...I'll bet the old pushrod tubes are the problem, not the seals. They may get less malleable as they age, and after stretching...
• Re: Oil pressure sender
  Historical mailing list - Larry Alofs
  Wed, 28 Nov 2012 09:54:37 -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...
• Cold start oil pressure
  Historical mailing list - Gene P
  Mon, 10 May 2021 20:43:48 -0700
  ...As part of a recent project, I pulled the sender between the pushrod tubes and put that with the VDO sender on a tee...
• Re: oil pressure/temp sensor location
  Historical mailing list
  Fri, 2 Aug 1996 20:21:49 -0400
  ...I have a couple of questions that I hope someone can help me out with: >> I repalce the pressure sender switch between the pushrods...
• Re: Clutch Pedal Click
  Historical mailing list - Scott Daniel - Turbovans
  Thu, 1 Jul 2010 20:28:17 -0700
  ...something to do with the pushrod etc. I have never done it , but I have read that it's possible to cut an access...
• Re: Dash Oil Light
  Historical mailing list - Dennis Haynes
  Wed, 16 Jan 2013 14:17:33 -0500
  ...The low pressure sensor is the one between the pushrod tubes drivers side. There should be a two wire connector left front of the...
• Re: valve cover gasket
  Historical mailing list - John Rodgers
  Sun, 28 Jan 2001 05:13:58 -0600
  ...pressurizing the case which in turn put pressure up through the pushrod housings into the valve cover. That pressure pushed the valve cover gasket...
• Re: shifter grind after swap (conclusion)
  Historical mailing list - Daniel Stevens
  Thu, 30 Sep 2004 09:20:03 -0400
  ...what my fuzzy math has concluded is that at one time some PO or mechanic adjusted the clutch cylinder pushrod on the pedal assembly...
• Re: Air Cool Pushrod Tube Install
  Historical mailing list - G. Matthew Bulley
  Mon, 22 Mar 1999 07:11:56 -0500
  ...Air Cool Pushrod Tube Install Help! - I just can't get seem to get the these things to seat properly. The Haynes and Wilson...
• Stripped thread, oh no
  Historical mailing list - Alfred Bagdan
  Wed, 8 Dec 1999 16:41:01 -0700
  Hi all Can anyone help me on this? After replacing leaky pushrod tubes on my 85 Vanagon, I stripped the threads on one of...
• Re: westy bug screens into vanagon?
  Historical mailing list - Rusty Johnson
  Mon, 1 May 2000 14:17:00 EDT
  ...Ogden, UT '80 WedgeFalia -- The Vanagon Valdiz (I really need to get around to those pushrod seals...)
• Re: Type IV Porsche and VW the same case ?
  Historical mailing list - Dennis Haynes
  Tue, 28 Sep 2004 20:01:59 -0400
  ...Three-square bolt be for?? It's between the #1 cylinder pushrod tubes on #651 Porsche 912e. TEll me that a VW type IV...
• Re: Oil Leak
  Historical mailing list - Benny boy
  Tue, 12 Feb 2008 11:39:07 -0500
  It's probably (i'm almost sure) the low oil pressure sender located on the left side in between the pushrods tubes. It's...
• '81 Engine work
  Historical mailing list
  Wed, 21 Jun 1995 16:55:35 -0500 (CDT)
  I am helping a friend to replace the pushrod tube seals on his '81 Westy. When he pops the valve cover bail off of...
• [A] '73 Westy help - THANKS!
  Historical mailing list
  Mon, 6 Feb 1995 09:58:50 -0500
  I wanted to thank everyone for their help with my pushrod tube (and previously, carb) problems. As it turned out, I hadn't pushed...
• sticky lifter
  Historical mailing list - gary hradek
  Wed, 7 May 2003 13:17:05 -0700
  ...Can anyone offer any other suggestion? Is it difficult to open up the pushrod tube and replace the lifter. thanks joe 1986 vanagon buffalo...
• Re: how to remove driver's side "engine tin" pushrod cover
  Historical mailing list - George Goff
  Thu, 21 Jul 2005 00:28:14 EDT
  In a message dated 7/20/05 12:44:27 AM, phlogiston420@GMAIL.COM writes: << i once attempted to remove this . . .tin . . . but after...
• Re: Cylinder 1 location
  Historical mailing list - neil N
  Tue, 4 Sep 2007 15:07:32 -0700
  ...http://www.benplace.com/pushrod/cyl_position.jpg If you don't already know, there is a mark on rim of dist. that indicates...
• Re: Push covers/enging tins
  Historical mailing list - Jim Felder
  Thu, 11 Sep 2008 10:28:10 -0500
  ...be helpful, but I mistook what you were talking about--the pushrod tin, I call it (don't flame me) for the valve cover...
• Re: Why adjust valves?
  Historical mailing list
  Thu, 20 Jun 1996 11:33:59 -0700 (PDT)
  ...then the lifter socket where the pushrod contacts, then the inner pushrod end, then the outer pushrod end, then the rocker socket, the rocker...
• Re: Bad valve? Lifter? Help!!! TICK TICK TICK!!
  Historical mailing list - Nathaniel Merrill
  Tue, 2 Nov 1999 12:03:17 -0500
  ...I assume a lifter or pushrod. I haven't opened or verified which valve > it is. Assuming that while hand cranking the motor, I...
• Re: heads leaking oil-help this guy
  Historical mailing list - Mark McCulley
  Mon, 21 Jul 1997 08:40:46 -0700
  ...This could be a leaky valve cover gasket (very easy and cheap to fix) or leaky pushrod tubes (moderately easy and not too expensive...
• Re: Resolved: Vanagon GL 83 1.9L engine wont start after head gasket replacement
  Historical mailing list - Mike Braden
  Mon, 24 May 2004 11:41:42 -0500
  No, after reseating the pushrod, all cylinders are giving 110-120 psi. Zoran Mladen wrote: >Hey Mike, > >Can you clairfy something? Do you still...
• Re: [Syncro] Berg Vs Pauter Ratio Rockers: comments please!
  Historical mailing list - Steve Schwenk
  Fri, 14 Dec 2001 09:49:53 -0800
  ...I would prefer to go with the pre-cut pushrods no matter which rockers we use. > > Rocker arm tips: > Berg says roller tips reduce...
• Clutch pedal engagement
  Historical mailing list - Daniel Brideau
  Mon, 12 May 2003 11:31:22 -0400
  ...me - same problem I had > fixed by adjusting the master cylinder "pushrod." It is a pain to get > to but, if you've got...
• Re: More questions on lifters etc
  Historical mailing list - Ken Wilford
  Sat, 5 Feb 2011 12:59:50 -0500
  ...I'm hoping that the current owner marked the > pushrods, lifters, cylinders etc during disassembly since it was obvious > from the dozen dual ports...
• Re: r&r clutch master cylinder Q
  Historical mailing list - Roger Sisler
  Tue, 17 May 2005 12:41:38 -0400
  ...cyl mounting bolts off and pull the cyl away from the pushrod.The rod will hang ok.I used a turkey baster to siphon...
• Flickering Oil Light - 2.1 L WBX
  Historical mailing list - John Rodgers
  Mon, 16 Feb 2015 16:52:33 -0600
  ...Changed two pushrod tubes that were leaking. Put everything back in place, adjusted the valves, put 20-50 oil in the engine, and went...
• Where might oil be leaking from?
  Historical mailing list - David Clarkson
  Wed, 7 May 2014 10:28:36 -0400
  ...I am thinking maybe an oil pump seal, oil pressure sender, crank seal or pushrod tubes. Any ideas would be greatly appreciated. This vehicle...
• Re: lifter problem...
  Historical mailing list - Charles Hokanson
  Wed, 23 Aug 2000 21:54:04 EDT
  ...going to -- figure out which lifeter it is an replace it -- not a big job if you get the spring loaded pushrod tubes. Charlie.
• Re: 84 engine tin
  Historical mailing list - Jeffrey Schwaia
  Mon, 13 Jan 2003 11:37:27 -0800
  ...Even keep a thrown rock from crushing a pushrod tube. But important? Not on an 84. tim in san jose _________________________________________________________________ MSN 8 with e...
• Leaking coolant 1.9L
  Historical mailing list - David White
  Mon, 7 Feb 2011 20:26:42 -0800
  ...Sitting in the driveway overnight it is now leaking coolant from the driver's side through the tin that protects the pushrods. The water...
• Re: nice '85 single cab FS on samba--now push-rod tin
  Historical mailing list - Larry Alofs
  Mon, 11 Sep 2006 09:58:43 -0500
  ...nice '85 single cab FS on samba > > >> JordanVw@AOL.COM wrote: >> >>> >>> >>>> >>>> >>> >>> not the first van i've seen driving around without the pushrod tube...
• Re: Contents of Head Gasket Kit 025 198 102A 025198102A
  Historical mailing list - Jere Hawn
  Mon, 28 Mar 2005 21:52:12 -0800
  ...No sealant 15) Pushrod tube seals (inner) Permatex 518 or any gasket goop. 16) Pushrod tube seals (outer) same sealant as (15) 17) tiny...
• Re: some guidance please, 86 autotrans troubles
  Historical mailing list - Evan Mac Donald
  Tue, 19 Aug 2008 12:17:43 -0700
  AH-HA! Someone else has had their band spring open! The main difficulty with re-installing the piston and its' pushrod is that the...
• Help! Engine rattle from '84 Vanagon 1.9l gas - TERMINAL?
  Historical mailing list - Anthony Polson
  Tue, 23 Apr 2002 18:34:17 +0100
  ...The tinware prevented me getting close to the pushrod tubes so I could not tell exactly where it was coming from. The ticking/knocking...