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Re: Re: [T3] bad news (sort of) Broke motor..( long )-- reply to 2 J±þÖ


On 3 Apr 99, at 11:30, My65notch@aol.com wrote:

> reply to : "Jim Adney" <jadney@vwtype3.org>
> << these lifters are lighter, but that the 
> <<snap rings have a habit of coming out at high RPMs and slowly working
> <<their way back to the sump, through the filter screen and into the
> <<pump. I have never seen this, but might this be what you have?
> 
> nope no way -- the majority of the spring is still intact -- it looks like
> one of those springs that comes out of one of those "clicker" type ball
> point pens when you take it apart -- if you know what I mean. The spring
> is a heavier gauge than those pen type springs but wound just as tightly.

Kind'a like the small diameter coil spring that is supposed to sit in 
the well on the top of the distributor drive gear?

Jim
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Jim Adney, jadney@vwtype3.org
Madison, Wisconsin, USA
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