Yes.  Just remove the rear exhaust, support the engine and remove the rear
hanger and tin.  Then the pulley and pump are easily accessible.

Dennis
-----Original Message-----
From: David Bayer <bayer@SYBASE.COM>
To: Vanagon@GERRY.SDSC.EDU <Vanagon@GERRY.SDSC.EDU>
Date: Monday, December 08, 1997 8:58 PM
Subject: leaking oil pump gasket or bolts

>Hello-
>        Is there anyway of getting at the oil pump cover bolts or the cover
>itself without pulling the engine on a syncro?
>
>background:
>        Well, after driving my van with its newly resealed heads back from
>the shop at which I was doing the work on it, I found the heads are nicely
>sealed. I also found that the oil leak I had thought I was fixing my
replacing
>the oil pressure switch (and which I am now going to have to re-replace
after
>getting the wrong switch, hmm, justice I suppose for replacing a perfectly
>good part ;) ), was not the cause of the oil leak. That leaves the main
>seal, the oil pump gasket and the self-sealing nuts on the oil pump cover
>(as something on the rear of the engine is leaking and dripping down by the
>drain plug)... The main seal I think is ok as the pulley is not cover in
>oil, nor is anything above the pulley. That leaves two things which are
totally
>hidden (as far as I can tell) behind the motor mounts. All this because I
>didn't notice the how much of an incline there when I checked the oil when
>my lifters would quite down a year ago in Seattle - put too much oil in,
>drove 5 miles and rechecked it to find the oil was about 1/4 over full
mark.
>I sure have learned a lot in the last year...
>
>dave
>
>