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On 22 Jul 2003 at 20:57, Keith Park wrote: > When you unbolt the rocker shafts the blocks slide to eather side and > tighten the end play on one rocker and loosen it on the other > somewhat... remember there are no springy washers in there. The setup > is poor... and doent hold adjustment well as far as end play is > concerned. I guess this means that the bolt holes are large enough to allow the shafts and/or the blocks to shift around. I agree, I think the OE parts fit pretty snugly on the large diameter part of the step studs in the head. > Im looking at the mating of the cylinder and head at the bottom with a > flashlight, I havent had the heads off but if there were blowby (at > least this much) id see some carbon and dripping. So you didn't get the late "cool tin?" I think these cover this area pretty completely, but maybe there is still some room there. There would still be plenty of places that you couldn't see, however. -- ******************************* Jim Adney, jadney@vwtype3.org Madison, Wisconsin, USA ******************************* ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ List info at http://www.vwtype3.org/list | mailto:gregm@vwtype3.org