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On Sat, 2003-08-02 at 17:54, Rustad, James R wrote: > I tried firing up the rebuilt engine today, and > got a bad surprise...all pushrod tubes are leaking > from the engine end on the left side. > Big puddle of oil on the floor after it primed. > Did get the oil lite to go out so that was a small victory. > > I thought I was careful about the sealing. > Any tips about how to really get the pushrod tubes to seal well? > Did you do the rebuild, or did someone else? Were they new tubes, or did they reuse the old ones? Look underneath at the tubes, to they look pretty straight. Are any of them cocked and not in the hole. Did someone forget a pushrod tube seal. I would suspect a cocked tube is not in its hole. This is the point where you use one of these 2 piece tubes to save pulling the engine out, and pulling the head. -- Russ Wolfe '66 FB MT '71 FB AT '65 Bug (not running) russw@classicvw.org http://www.classicvw.org ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ List info at http://www.vwtype3.org/list | mailto:gregm@vwtype3.org