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 landfall
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| posted on October 4th, 2014 at 10:24 AM |
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Hydraulic lifters type 1
What is the general concensus about hydraulic lifters for a 1600 beetle engine.
MOFOCO manufacture a hydraulic lifter kit that includes cam (=to Engle100 grind) lifters and pushrods.
There kit does not require any case machining.
Thoughts please.
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| posted on October 6th, 2014 at 11:37 PM |
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Try a bit of web research on the later 1600i engines in the late 90's to '03 Beetles. I think they used hydraulic lifters.
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| posted on October 7th, 2014 at 06:36 AM |
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Some standard engines had hydraulic lifters, you have to use a full flow oil filter rather than screen in the sump to keep the oil clean enough , I
bought a set fro Gene Berg years ago after talking to him so they must be alright, I still have that set in the shed and never got around to using
them.
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| posted on October 7th, 2014 at 06:51 AM |
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Thanks, I've done a lot of Googling and have decided to give them a miss.
Stick to the tried and true.
Mofoco stipulate that the case in the lifer area must be as new, full flow filter must be used and even then bleed down is to be expected.
The other reason that put me off was that someone mentioned that because the lifter will compensate for any valve movement, you would not know if a
valve was stretching until it broke.
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| posted on October 7th, 2014 at 08:12 AM |
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Late kombi and WBX motors had hydraulic and all is good.
All reports on Mexi-motors were good as well
That said - it aint hard to do tappets
I would pass if it was a hi-po motor, but would seriously consider if a stocker
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