They owe you a free engine, or at least a really big discount on the next one, to make up for your lost billable time.

Stuart

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From: Vanagon Mailing List [mailto:vanagon@gerry.vanagon.com] On Behalf Of kenneth wilford (Van-Again)
Sent: Tuesday, May 12, 2015 5:34 AM
To: vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM
Subject: Re: Advice on TD engine problem

I didn't let it run very long.  30 seconds max.  This was after oiling the motor with an air gun on the oil pump shaft.

After ripping everything apart and putting it back together yesterday I got a call from the engine builder.  We had spoken to them earlier that my Father and I thought that there seemed to be something wrong with the length of the oil pump shaft or something related to it.  It seemed to us that the oil pump was not being driven by the vacuum pump.  There was some small damage around the slot in the bottom of the vacuum pump where it drives the oil pump.  The builder dismissed this as crazy talk as he was looking at engines in their shop and couldn't find a problem...  Until yesterday afternoon when they figured out that there was a problem with some of the vacuum pumps they had on hand.  Supposedly the bottom of the pump housing where is seats to the block is incompletely machined not allowing the vacuum pump to seat all the way down!  They are going to machine the pumps they have on hand but I am going to try to mod the pump I have here just to get this project finished.  I just wished they had found this problem before I spent an entire day trying in vain to figure this out.

Hopefully I can grind a little off of the pump and get this van driving.
Wish me luck.

Ken
On May 11, 2015 8:19 PM, "Walking Boss" <walkingboss@communicomm.com> wrote:

> The diesels drive off the back side of the Gilmer belt, and the 
> countershaft turns opposite to the gas engine. I would check the crank 
> bearings, and cam journals  after  all this running with no oil 
> pressure!
>
> Skipper
>
>  Do the gassers and diesels spin the intermediate shafts and or oil 
> pumps
>>
> opposite directions?
>