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Subject:Re: Hydraulic to solid lifters?
Date:Wed, 1 Nov 1995 21:49:04 -0800

>...Now I know they went to steel pushrods for the hydraulics,
>but did the length change? did the cam change? can I do this, I know
>people go the other way.  Is this a stupid ides?

John:
Every performance cam for h2o VWs comes in 2 versions: for solid lifters,
and for hydraulic lifters. I think if you want to do it right, you'll have
to replace lifters and cam together.

Good luck.

Enjoy,
Dave

'88 Vanagon (We have an agreement: she owns it, I maintain it, we enjoy it)
Did the clockwise round-trip tour of the U.S. from north CA to the Florida
keys in '92.

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