Ken,

If by "tab" you mean the part of the gasket near the oil return boss that

On Wed, May 13, 2015 at 3:02 PM, kenneth wilford (Van-Again) <
kenwilfy@comcast.net> wrote:

> OK, I finally made some progress on this thing today.  I was testing for
> oil pressure at the head and also at the filter flange where a second oil
> pressure sender was installed.  I was seeing no oil pressure from either
> place.  However there is a third port on the center of the oil filter
> flange that had a plug in it.  I decided to check for oil pressure here and
> I actually got some!  I am thinking that I may have had oil pressure the
> entire time in the lower end of the motor as it made pressure right away
> and it pinned the gauge over to above 80psi!  Then I installed another oil
> pressure gauge at the head and started the van again.  Now I can see full
> oil pressure at the oil filter flange but zero at the head port.  I pulled
> the valve cover and the good news is everything up there looks fine and
> dandy, however there is just a very small amount of residual oil up in the
> top end.  I cranked the engine over with the valve cover off and no new oil
> came up into the head area.  So my new theory is back to the idea that for
> some reason, there is a blockage at the head that is keeping oil from
> getting up into it.  I looked at the tab on the head gasket and it is
> toward the side of the engine toward the timing belt which is supposed to
> be correct.
>
> What do you think?
>
> Ken
>
>
>
> On Wed, May 13, 2015 at 12:56 PM, Ralph Meyermann <
> ralphmeyermann@gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
> > 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?
> > > >
> > >
> >
>
>
>
> --
> Thanks,
> Ken Wilford
> John 3:16
> www.vanagain.com
>