Lol, I liked the 'scroll down' thing - cute.
( could write 'you dumb-blank' ! too on the no gas thing )

but......see, as I always say, it was 'JUST A blockage or leakage of fluids
or electrons."
Only this time the main blockage was in the technician's brain.

I've had lifters take up 5 hours of operation to get fully quiet.
I normally recheck all the lifter adjustments if any are noisy.
If they're mushy when you do the adjustment, that's a noisy one, and turn
until the clearance just goes away, and not further into the mushy feeling
area. If you follow what I'm saying.

Remember - is the unit turned on ?
it the unit plugged in ?
Is there sufficient gas in the tank ?  ( duh )

And the older the tank the more I have concern about it not being able to
get all the fuel out of it when low.  I've had a Syncro run out of gas at
the top of the red on the fuel gauge, and I've also pumped 3 gallons out of
a 2WD tank after it said 'Empty.'
You shoulda made up some obscure thing that you over looked -  now we know
you didn't make sure there was enough go juice in it !!
Scott

-----Original Message-----
From: Vanagon Mailing List [mailto:vanagon@gerry.vanagon.com] On Behalf Of
Jim Felder
Sent: Wednesday, April 02, 2008 4:12 PM
To: vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM
Subject: Re: Heads back on, runs OK and dies

I found the problem and fixed it. It was..... (scroll down).....

Out of gas.

That's right, the stupidest mistake you can make in diagnosing a vehicle's
problems. That said, it was the extreme angle I had the right side of the
car hanging at, not just the fuel level. But when I jumpered the pump this
afternoon and was getting air bubbles in the fuel, it clicked.

This troubleshooting exercise is recommended for people who want to
understand a lot about the vanagon fuel system in a short amount of time.
Thanks for all who helped.

I still have one very loud lifter, so I need to run it a while more and
check clearances if the noise doesn't go away. It runs well, though. No
smoke from the exhaust, no bubbles in the coolant, and no leaks so far.

Jim

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