----- Original Message -----
From: "Dan Erlandson" <danoer1@ECLIPSE.NET>
To: <vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM>
Sent: Monday, June 23, 2003 6:40 PM
Subject: engine noises

> The van starts up fine but the valve clicking has not gone away.  I know
the
> archives/Boston Bob's web site says that it can take up to 15 minutes or
so,
> but there are other things that concern me.  I seem to be getting some
white
> smoke out the tailpipe, something I never really noticed before.  The
> exhaust valve on cylinder #1 (the valve most forward on the engine on the
> passenger side) seems messed up.  I can't get a .006 feeler gauge in there
> at TDC.  For all the other cylinders and the intake on #1 when you push
down
> on the rocker arm to act on the pushrod you get the rod to compress the
> hydraulic lifter and the lifter pushes back after you release it.  #1
> exhaust is rock hard at TDC with no give from the hydraulic lifter.

That "rock hard" effect is exactly what you want.  The fact that the others
are compressing indicates they haven't pumped up yet.  I once redid the
heads on my Vanagon and it was probably a week before all the clacking went
away.  Drive on.

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Tom Young                       '81 Vanagon
Lafayette, CA 94549         '82 Westfalia
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