Use a collapsible pushrod tube and just replace the 1 lifter.

Dennis

-----Original Message-----
From: Vanagon Mailing List [mailto:vanagon@gerry.vanagon.com] On Behalf
Of Damon Campbell
Sent: Sunday, February 29, 2004 4:41 PM
To: vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM
Subject: Identified the lifter, now what? :-)

First off, thanks to Jeff with Vanagon Parts for the
helpful hint of simply removing the pushrod to see
which valve was making the noise.

Didn't take me long as my first "guess" was the right
one: cylinder #1 on the intake (the one further aft).
Why a trained repair shop couldn't have done this same
thing is beyond me.

Anyway, the question becomes: "now what?"  How should
i go about checking it is (hopefully) just a bad
lifter or (please not!) a bad cam?
If it is the latter, should the shop who sold the cam
be accountable for one that goes flat, and
consequently my having to rip the engine apart?  Or is
this just a risk i take by building an engine myself?
I'm really not letigous about this kind of thing, but
as my wife recently said, "this is the project that
just keeps on giving".  I'm just ready for it to stop
giving.

Thanks for any input, i've (hopefully) just about got
this problem licked,

-Damon

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'84 Westy (Sparky) w/2.3L WBX (wow... it actually works!)

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