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• Re: 2.1 WBX Push Rods. Make Sure They're Seated! Was: 2.1 wbx rocker, pushrods
  Historical mailing list - Neil N
  Mon, 22 May 2017 18:43:55 -0700
  "devlis in the details" as they say. There is indeed wear at faces on the valve adjuster screws. The valve stems look ok so...
• Re: 2.1 WBX Push Rods. Make Sure They're Seated! Was: 2.1 wbx rocker, pushrods
  Historical mailing list - Neil N
  Fri, 19 May 2017 18:21:06 -0700
  Thanks for that info Dennis. Before applying it, I did think that some excess black RTV might break loose into the intake tract but...
• Re: ISO : rocker arm shaft carrier
  Historical mailing list - Scott Daniel
  Sun, 8 Sep 2013 18:30:49 -0700
  ...H wrote: > some weeks ago I threatened to replace a spent pushrod tube seal. that stopped the seepage til yesterday - full blown leak. when...
• Re: Wiring questions
  Historical mailing list - Roger VanTill
  Tue, 13 Oct 2009 06:14:13 -0400
  ...The one under the pushrod tubes is straight with a rubber boot. I'll look for those other wires when it's light out...
• '81 Engine work
  Historical mailing list
  Wed, 21 Jun 1995 16:30:18 -0700
  James Brill writes: >I am helping a friend to replace the pushrod tube seals on his '81 >Westy. When he pops the valve cover...
• Re: Lifters pumping down at speed
  Historical mailing list - Scott Daniel - Shazam
  Tue, 22 Apr 2008 17:50:16 -0700
  ...If you want to replace lifters without removing the head/s .......means you'd need to use a spring loaded pushrod tube wherever you...
• Re: exhaust bolts / studs... tips or tricks?
  Historical mailing list - David Milo
  Sun, 18 May 2008 10:27:33 -0400
  ...hotmail.com> wrote: > Hey Folks > > I will be working replacing my pushrod tins soon as part of the oil > pressure gauge installation. > > [ 1990 2...
• RE: 6 cyl. Vanagon
  Historical mailing list
  Wed, 23 Nov 94 16:08:12 AST
  ...engines, some with overhead cam, some with pushrods, some with turbo. The RX-7 motor needed more deck height, and was rated poor fuel...
• Re: replacing noisy lifter for 91 multivan
  Historical mailing list - Vanagon man
  Fri, 28 Mar 2003 06:40:15 -0500
  WBX is not quite as easy as on a type 4 engine......you cannot pull the pushrod tubes out thru the head on a...
• Re: Loud metallic knock from engine??????
  Historical mailing list - Jens Jakob Andersen
  Wed, 12 Jul 2006 18:59:03 +0200
  ...I can replace the hy-lifter without pulling more than the pushrod tube, valve train, pop new hy-lifter in, put incollapsible pushrodtube, replace...
• Re: Ford V-6 (was: Engine conversion ?)
  Historical mailing list - Robin Oomkes
  Tue, 4 Jan 2000 05:14:25 +0100
  ...It's a pushrod clunker, available in 2.3 l and 2.8 l capacity, that was specific to Europe. It was known in...
• Re: Stripped oil drain-how to repair?
  Historical mailing list - Normand Gagnon & Sylvie Brunet
  Sat, 16 Feb 2002 19:40:04 -0500
  ...Drained all the oil >to get rid of the coolant that got in through pushrod ports. Noticed the >drain plug was hard to remove...
• Re: Spring Cleaning an Aircooled Motor
  Historical mailing list - Stan Wilder
  Wed, 19 Mar 2003 22:04:24 -0600
  ...I had oil in my pushrod covers once and it flamed, scorched the plug ceramics and melted the rubber boots. I've since drilled...
• Re: This is getting depressing
  Historical mailing list - David Brodbeck
  Sun, 9 Mar 2003 18:06:35 -0500
  ...if you corner hard enough, you can send the oil clear out of the crankcase and up into the head via the pushrod tubes. ;)
• Re: Hydro lifters (# of turn)
  Historical mailing list - Daniel L. Katz
  Mon, 28 Jun 2004 00:00:19 -0400
  ...and consume that .006. >Various parts = Lifters, Rocker Arms, Valve Stems, Pushrods, valve seats. >Check out .006 on a feeler gauge, it's about...
• Re: Valve adjustment advice
  Historical mailing list - Dennis Haynes
  Mon, 14 Dec 2015 18:43:00 -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...
• Heads, lifters, the usual..
  Historical mailing list - Randy Huyck
  Sat, 4 May 2002 13:31:15 -0700
  ...I replaced the pushrod and tube back then and all has been fine since. I think it's very, very likely this is the...
• Re: Oil Light Discovery-Fram Filters
  Historical mailing list - Wes Ullrich
  Mon, 5 Jan 2004 13:32:20 -0500
  ...Leave the stock low pressure sender(4.4 >psi) between the pushrod tubes in place to warn of problems at the >beartings. One could...
• Re: Problem with push rod tube seals?
  Historical mailing list - kenneth wilford (Van-Again)
  Wed, 22 Jun 2016 14:04:00 -0400
  ...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: FS: Roller Tip Rockers (Pauter 1.3)
  Historical mailing list - Chris Radcliffe
  Wed, 9 May 2001 21:05:51 -0700
  ...Roller Tip Rockers (Pauter 1.3) > The total original purchase cost to me of the rockers, chrome moly > pushrods, and the platinum plugs was...
• FS: 74 bus
  Historical mailing list - Chip Shaner
  Sun, 22 Dec 1996 18:32:47 -0600 (CST)
  ...xxx miles on it, probobly 145,000 engine leaks oil at pushrod tube seals engine runs good new petronix points New brake pads, cylinders...
• The TURD Rides Again!
  Historical mailing list - Chris Smith
  Thu, 2 Aug 2001 20:34:38 -0700
  ...It took 2 trips to Sears to get the "O" rings, #18 on the big end of the pushrod tube and a #27 on...
• Re: 84 Vanagon, will not shift into gear.
  Historical mailing list - Scott Daniel - Shazam
  Mon, 3 Sep 2007 21:59:28 -0700
  ...than an impossible to reach seldom-done, > obscure clutch master cylinder pushrod adjustment length.....which > 'normally' never needs adjusting. ) > > If it'll shift fine...
• Re: Oil Pressure Buzzer? After Tach Wiring.
  Historical mailing list - John Bange
  Mon, 16 May 2005 13:51:12 -0700
  ...the classic sensor below the pushrod tubes on the left side of the engine (.3 bar) and a additional sensor below the water pump...
• Re: Lockers -- how hard to install LLSD?
  Historical mailing list - Rocket J Squirrel
  Tue, 10 May 2011 14:13:05 -0700
  ...Would not shortening the pushrod with that threaded rod pull the throttle open? -- Rocky J Squirrel
• Valve Adjustment during head installation?
  Historical mailing list - Craig Oda - Personal email
  Thu, 20 Jun 2002 10:09:13 -0700
  ...However, I also did not put my pushrods back on the exact valve that I took them off from. I took off the rocker...
• Location of oil leak
  Historical mailing list - David Shepherdson
  Fri, 24 Jun 2005 10:48:22 -0700
  ...Any other common leaks that I should look for (the pushrod tubes seem to be OK although it is difficult to see them)? 4...
• Engine tin (was Re: Look at my crack!)
  Historical mailing list - Allan Streib
  Thu, 16 Oct 2008 10:03:06 -0400
  ...Anyway, I noticed in your pics that you have tin covering the bottom of the engine (where the pushrod tubes are, etc). I don...
• Re: 2.1 WBX Push Rods. Make Sure They're Seated! Was: 2.1 wbx rocker, pushrods
  Historical mailing list - Neil N
  Fri, 19 May 2017 18:12:30 -0700
  For anyone else checking head nut torque..... This '88 was (is) slated for an engine swap so felt I had "nothing to lose" by...
• Re: about to switch to amsoil,
  Historical mailing list - Matthew Libby & Denise DeWolfe
  Thu, 28 Sep 2000 21:43:06 -0400
  ...I replaced three pushrod tubes (with > collapsables) when I changed the oil. > > Before I changed the oil, the oil pressure light never came on...
• <FS> '86 Syncro Westy
  Historical mailing list - Tim Smith
  Sun, 20 Jul 1997 16:42:32 -0300
  ...both bumpers chrome/straight engine?? judging by crust free heads, shiney pushrod tubes etc, I'd say it's been redone in last 3...
• it was just a small leak on the left head in the front of the head
  Historical mailing list - gary hradek
  Sat, 1 Feb 2003 20:01:43 -0800
  ...I had removed the pushrod tube cover to determine that it always leaked after shutdown on short runs left head in the front. Think...
• Re: Push Rod Tube Leak????
  Historical mailing list - Craig Oda
  Mon, 3 Jan 2005 13:53:59 -0800
  Are you sure that the leak is coming from the pushrod tube and not from the waterpump seal which is above that? Feel around...
• Re: Cold start oil pressure
  Historical mailing list - Eric Caron
  Tue, 11 May 2021 21:06:03 -0400
  ...part of a recent project, I pulled the sender between the pushrod tubes and put that with the VDO sender on a tee about...
• I can't believe this!
  Historical mailing list - Harmon Seaver
  Mon, 10 Aug 1998 16:45:23 -0500
  ...got bad, I looked at the valve covers, they looked okay. Pushrod tubes could not possible get into the engine airstream this way -- at...
• Rebuild jitters
  Historical mailing list - Sean Garrett
  Mon, 24 Jan 2000 12:33:05 -0700
  ...When I disassemble I plan on examining the pistons, heads, cylinders, pushrods, rods, lifters, rockers carefully. I am also entertaining the idea of taking...
• Re: Oil pressure summary
  Historical mailing list - Max Wellhouse
  Fri, 20 Sep 2002 12:18:04 -0500
  ...My thinking was to use the factory pressure gauge and "T" off the under the pushrod switch location and run a custom made hose...
• Re: engine noises
  Historical mailing list - Tom Young
  Mon, 23 Jun 2003 18:58:34 -0700
  ...For all the other cylinders and the intake on #1 when you push down > on the rocker arm to act on the pushrod you...
• Re: how to remove driver's side "engine tin" pushrod cover
  Historical mailing list - John Carpenter
  Sun, 24 Jul 2005 07:57:08 EDT
  In a message dated 7/23/2005 7:21:41 A.M. Pacific Daylight Time, rrecardo@WEBTV.NET writes: <problem - however, many of us...
• Re: 0.9 bar or 1.8 bar Oil Press Switch Bullshit
  Historical mailing list - Rico Sapolich
  Fri, 9 Feb 2001 13:54:44 EST
  ...writes: << You have two oil pressure senders, one is located above pushrod tubes on left side of engine, underneath the tin (this is the...
• Re: diagnosis--blown piston ring?
  Historical mailing list - Ben S
  Fri, 27 Mar 2009 13:45:37 -0700
  ...is it normal for blow by to travel through the pushrod tubes and out through the head cover? seems like the dipstick or crankcase...
• Re: I get no respect
  Historical mailing list - Tom Miller
  Sun, 4 Apr 2004 17:30:07 -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: Engine teardown - 2.1L WBX
  Historical mailing list - John Rodgers
  Wed, 10 Jun 2015 19:17:29 -0500
  ...Decided to go all the way with it - all new > everything. Pushrods were bent indicating stuck valves from over heating. > Both heads were cracked...
• Re: 2.1L WBX -oil pressure light flickers at idle
  Historical mailing list - John Rodgers
  Sat, 28 Feb 2015 13:44:54 -0600
  ...But the engine was out of service while the oil cooler seal was replaced and two pushrod tubes were replaced on the side opposite...
• Re: 125 HP Wasserboxer Ghia
  Historical mailing list - Tom Forhan
  19 Dec 1995 09:28:09 EST
  ...solid tappets (in place of >the standard hydraulic tappets), chrome moly pushrods and bolt-up >rocker shafts. The engine is topped off with a...
• Performance after Rebuild?
  Historical mailing list - J Wagner
  Fri, 21 Mar 1997 20:54:41 -0500
  ...bearings camshaft lifters oil pump rings waterpump plugs, leads, distributer cap and rotor among other things(like gaskets, pushrod tubes, clamps...nothing else major...
• Re: Empty Lifter
  Historical mailing list - Stan Wilder
  Tue, 9 Nov 2004 10:51:26 -0600
  ...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: quick and dirty head swap
  Historical mailing list - Alistair Bell
  Wed, 22 May 2013 07:49:59 -0700
  ...the ones around engine - head/pushrod tube plates - what ever you call them, the pressed steel protection under pushrod tubes. The tabs that affix...
• Re: low pressure
  Historical mailing list - Bill Knight
  Mon, 3 Aug 1998 11:13:15 -0400
  ...The oil > that flows through the lifters goes through the pushrods to > lubricate the > rockers. You should also check the oil pressure relief valve...
• new engine from VW
  Historical mailing list
  Tue, 16 Aug 1994 13:38:16 -0700 (PDT)
  ...cover?) ... > > Or, possibly the engine sucked a valve or thrown a pushrod. They all sound > the same, to me. No black smoke, just a...
• Bummed and need advise about my 87 Vanagon
  Historical mailing list - James B. Morris
  Mon, 17 Aug 1998 09:37:42 -0500
  Well boys and girls..........I replaced a pushrod tube on my Vanagon Saturday (THANKS!! Ron Salmon and the Bus Depot for the expedient service...
• Re: Sticky or noisey Tappets
  Historical mailing list
  Fri, 26 Aug 94 23:06:33 ADT
  ...has anyone else fought with pushrod tube replacement? Remember the old models needed to have the heads removed to do this, then the mid...
• Re: Help with brakes!!
  Historical mailing list - David Raistrick
  Mon, 22 Jun 1998 20:06:29 -0400
  ...the master cylinder pushrod is adjusted to tight, so the master cylinder never completely releases. Perhaps something in the vacuum booster servo is bad...
• Re: clutch on 85 westy
  Historical mailing list - Jim & Melody
  Mon, 16 Aug 1999 12:18:25 -0600
  ...had a year ago and fixed by adjusting the master cylinder "pushrod." It is a pain to get to but, if you've got...
• Resolved: Vanagon GL 90 2.1L engine unexpectedly stalls while driving
  Historical mailing list - Mike Braden
  Mon, 24 May 2004 09:46:13 -0500
  ...I checked the pushrods and re-seated the one that felt like it wasn't quite in there. I also put the old cap...
• Re: Pesky Oil Leak
  Historical mailing list - Scott Daniel - Turbovans
  Fri, 25 Jun 2010 17:56:15 -0700
  ...you remove rocker arm and pushrod, and rip out the bad push rod tube, then you compress the spring-loaded expandable push rod tube...
• Help, my bus has fallen and can't get up!!
  Historical mailing list
  Mon, 27 Feb 1995 14:48:30 -0500
  ...The brief history as I know it follows; Oct 94, new pushrods and seals, Dec. 94 new pistons, rings, cylinders and heads. Ran good...
• Re: Water in the oil update
  Historical mailing list - Ken Wilford
  Mon, 10 Oct 2005 09:24:57 -0400
  ...engine out of the van. > >I found that the left side pushrod tubes were longer than they should have been. I assume this means...
• 86 Westy Syncro oli woes part II....
  Historical mailing list
  Wed, 19 Jun 1996 22:53:24 -0400
  ...I located the sending unit at the low pressure switch side between the pushrods,it extends out about 2 inches at the end of...
• Re: Euro-Elec: UPDATE 91 Volkswagen Vanagon, idiot lights, oil light
  Historical mailing list
  Tue, 18 Jan 2000 12:58:44 EST
  ...The pressure sender between the pushrod tubes shouldn't make the light come on until you are showing a pressure of around 3 psi...