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| posted on February 2nd, 2005 at 12:27 AM |
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Tappet adjustment problem! ..... Valve lifters/Cam followers???
Yesterday I was re-fitting my rocker shaft onto one of the heads on my black bug's engine, and there appears to be an excessive amount of play
between the tappet and valve stem on my #2 exhaust valve. All the others are fine.
I have had a look and it appears that the pushrod is not sticking out as far as the others do when the cylinders are at TDC. When I insert the pushrod
into the case it also feels slightly different to all the others, which all feel the same as each other.
The pushrods are all the same length.
Type 1 engines have valve lifters that go between the pushrods and the cam, yes? Could this be the source of my problem?
Any other suggestions?
Thanks, Steve
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| posted on February 2nd, 2005 at 07:44 AM |
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Yes vw engines have a lifter between cam and push rod.
Check the valve stem height first with a steel rule. put it across the tip of the valves and make sure there all approximatly the same length. you
make have dropped the valve or it might be stuck. check this before you go much futher.
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| posted on February 2nd, 2005 at 09:25 AM |
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how much
How much difference are we talking about. Also check that the pushrods are the same length to begin with. I had excessive clearence on my engine and
the valve seat had fallen out.
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| posted on February 3rd, 2005 at 10:54 PM |
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Ok I've checked it out. All the valve stems are level (not stuck valves).
The pushrods themselves are all the same length and are straight.
I swapped the pushrods around and it does seem to make a difference, it appears that the ends on the pushrods are slightly different.
Anyway, with the pushrods swapped around I think i can adjust the tappets properly, just need to put the right sized shims between the rocker shaft
and the head.
Currently the shims mean that the gap is too big to adjust on all the valves, and without the shims the end of the valve would probably be pushing
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