Progress?
On May 12, 2015 11:21 AM, "Stuart MacMillan" <stuartmacm@gmail.com> wrote:

> 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
>
> -----Original Message-----
> 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?
> >
>