you can get collapsible pushrod tubes, which are a lot less hassle to fit (no head removal) but they're not as good 😀 this would allow you to fit new seals but...😎
yep collapsible are available but 3 or 4 times the price for a set.
While your there you can give it a decoke and fit new valve guides ( something i should have done last time ) make sure you de ridge the barrells and re lap the barrel to the heads
nahh, I just want to get it through rego at this stage. While it doesnt blow smoke, the bores are glazed and pitted from sitting around, and one cylinder needs flycutting as it's leaking compression on number 2.
funny thing is the valves are all sitting nice and proud, and no cracks anywhere!
I'm going to ignore all this for the moment though and jam it back together for rego, then do it all properly later on.
no tin crap, no bootlid, no engine bay seal, no jacking the car up to extract the motor....I had the motor out in 10 minutes flat. (Had to remove it anyway to fix the shuddering clutch)
If it aint broke,
Make it go faster!!
68AutoBugBeetle Restorer - Experience over 138\% - YIKES --
German push rod tube seals aren't all that much better... I bought some neoprene ones from Peter Richards at Valla last year. The secret with push rod tube seals, is the glue that You use. I use Aviation jointing goo, which is readily available from Repco-Auto one etc.. Even after the seals crack all the way round, they won't leak if You do it properly, I put the goo on both sides of the seals...
Seals still come off easily when needed...
years later....
- Helping keep Air Cooled VWs on the road - location: SCONE in the Upper Hunter Valley - Northern NSW 320 kms NNW of SYDNEY---
use quality contact cement.. cheaper, works fine, stays rubbery, glue inner and outer.. no leaks.. got this from an aircraft engineer who did his time on aircooled aero engines
tony g
they took me away haha, hope the medication works
BizarreModeratorThe artist formerly known as blue74l
Peter Richards doesn't sell crap....
I have bags & bags of the cheap ones.
The neoprene were expensive and feel totally different to the cheap ones.
But, using the cheap ones with Aviation jointing goo or permatex, and they will NOT leak.... the seals crack but the glue stays put...
Lee
- Helping keep Air Cooled VWs on the road - location: SCONE in the Upper Hunter Valley - Northern NSW 320 kms NNW of SYDNEY---
68AutoBugBeetle Restorer - Experience over 138\% - YIKES --
Actually, I bought some outside door handle seals for My beetle from ************* and they cracked day after I put them on... $14 for 2 doors...
I have just bought replacements from Mick Motors $2... and they are hard plastic not like the soft garbage..... I bought from *************....
Edited by Kruizin Kombi - No need to go there, Lee 🙂
[Edited on 18-2-2004 by KruizinKombi]
- Helping keep Air Cooled VWs on the road - location: SCONE in the Upper Hunter Valley - Northern NSW 320 kms NNW of SYDNEY---
badge-bickerers, with all due respect STFU. Thank you.
meanwhile, back at the ranch (Johnny, disguised as a door, got his knob shot off....)......
it looks like, just to complete my irritation with this project, that one pushrod tube is split, and the oil wasn't coming from the seals at all! Might buy one collapsable tube to get it thru rego. grrr
If it aint broke,
Make it go faster!!
BizarreModeratorThe artist formerly known as blue74l
i reckon it's a good excuse to get stuck into a brief upgrade.... pull the heads and use real pushrods and put better heads on 😀
and split the case and drop in a hotter cam, set of 94's (even though we know they don't last more than 200,000 miles without a hone) and a CW crank. or a stroker if you're so inclined. come on it's only half a day's work and a couple of weeks of wages 😀
vw54 wrote:While your there you can give it a decoke and fit new valve guides ( something i should have done last time ) make sure you de ridge the barrells and re lap the barrel to the heads
Can you expand on this Dave? I'm taking my heads off next week to install new pushrod tubes... Also, do you need to remove the rocker arms to take the heads off?
