Hi,

I followed this advice to the letter on my 1600 aircooled and it seems to be
fine, I get the odd noisy tappet now & again but they always seem to go away
again.
One thing that suprised me was how little oil leaked out when I took the
valve covers off (the van was pointing downhill at the time), I assume
everything is getting the lubrication its needs as nothing appears to have
seized up.

Phil
T25

----- Original Message -----
From: <KENWILFY@AOL.COM>
To: <vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM>
Sent: Wednesday, February 02, 2000 2:09 PM
Subject: Re: Fw: Re: Hydraulic valve lifter (mis)operation

> I always set the valves to zero lash when first starting up the motor
after
> rebuild, or head removal.  Let the van run for an hour or so.  Then I
adjust
> the screw in one 360 degree turn (I figure the Bentley folks must've meant
> two half turns because two full turns is definately too much).  Works
every
> time.  However I haven't done amount of experimenting that other folks
have
> on the list with backing off the adjusters and checking compression, etc.
I
> might try that when it gets a little warmer.
>
> Thanks,
> Ken Wilford
> http://www.vanagain.com