See below. What's up?

G. Matthew Bulley
Bulley-Hewlett
Mount Olive, NC USA
877.658.1278 Tollfree
www.bulley-hewlett.com

My Agenda: Stop Suburban Sprawl.
My Methods: Revitalize older, highly-dense, urban towns. Champion
mass/rapid transit and fast Internet service to these towns. Demand
replacement of archaic, "separationist" zoning laws with neo-traditional
dense/mixed use zoning.
The Result: All Americans obtain superior living opportunities; sprawl is
restrained; and dense, beautiful, interlinked towns become our children's
inheritance.
Find out more at http://www.cnu.org

-----Original Message-----
From:   pokeswagon@blazenet.net [SMTP:pokeswagon@blazenet.net]
Sent:   Tuesday, July 25, 2000 1:49 PM
To:     Matthew Bulley
Subject:        Re: Valve Cover Gaskets and Lifter adjustment?

Thanks Matthew,

Glad to hear that the lifter adjustment may be called for and not just a
couple of air
gurus wanting to play with my waterbox. Don't get me wrong, I loved
air-cooled and I love
these guys. But sometimes I see their eyes well up with excitement over the
new toy that I
pull into the shop.

I've tried searching the archive for lifter adjustment as far back as
January 1999 and all
I get is my message and your reply. ??? I guess I'll go further.

Peace - donna
'84 Westy (Pepe)

Matthew Bulley wrote:

> Do the ATF/MMO flush, but also, search the archive on "lifter
+adjustment".
> This has been discussed at length. The consensus: yes, you should adjust
> your hydraulic lifters occasionally, and reset the preload to (some
> disagreed here) to 1/2 turn, (180 degrees) instead of 2 turns (720
degrees)
> the manual recommends. Boston Bob seemed to have some well-founded
beliefs
> on this matter.
>
> Bob?
>
> G. Matthew Bulley
> Bulley-Hewlett
> Mount Olive, NC USA
> 877.658.1278 Tollfree
> www.bulley-hewlett.com
>
> My Agenda: Stop Suburban Sprawl.
> My Methods: Revitalize older, highly-dense, urban towns. Champion
> mass/rapid transit and fast Internet service to these towns. Demand
> replacement of archaic, "separationist" zoning laws with neo-traditional
> dense/mixed use zoning.
> The Result: All Americans obtain superior living opportunities; sprawl is
> restrained; and dense, beautiful, interlinked towns become our children's
> inheritance.
> Find out more at http://www.cnu.org
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From:   (Donna Cassano) [SMTP:pokeswagon@blazenet.net]
> Sent:   Tuesday, July 25, 2000 12:49 PM
> To:     vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM
> Subject:        Valve Cover Gaskets and Lifter adjustment?
>
>   Hi Volks,
>
> I was at my buddy Gil's Air-Cooled shop the other day talking about my
> upcoming cross country trip and I asked him about things (parts) that he
> would advise bringing along. He mentioned valve cover gaskets. Then we
> talked about popping in a new set before I take off. He was also
> concerned about a slight mis-fire we kept hearing and suggested
> adjusting the lifters. I said, "They are hydralic, they can't be
> adjusted.". He and another air-cooled friend said they have adjusted
> their hydralic lifters. We looked at the Bently, and sure enough they
> have instuctions for adjusting lifters. However, I think that they are
> talking about new lifters on install.
>
> My question to the List is this; Should I do any of this work or am I
> going to open up a potential can of worms a month before my trip. I
> don't have any oil leaks around the heads or push rods and other than
> the slight mis-fire everything seems fine. I do get the occassional
> tapping lifter before warm up, but who doesn't? I'm planning on doing
> the ATF clean and flush on my oil change before departure and feel
> confident that this will cure my sticky lifter.
>
> So what do you say? If it ain't broke don't fix it?
>
> Thanks in advance.
> Peace - donna
> '84 Westy (Pepe)
>
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