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On Wed, 2002-05-15 at 08:14, Jason Weigel wrote: > I as well have heard this wood rumor. It was explained to me as Dave started > out that the oil was brought up to the rockers through capilary action. Wood > wicks liquid naturaly, its how trees sustain life. > The wood was in there for just the opposite reason. It is an oil baffle to limit how much oil went up the push rod to the rocker arms. I have even put pipe cleaners into push rods. on engines that were oiling the upper end "too well". This wood also stiffened the push rod. On a 36hp, the push rod/cam follower are one piece, and DO NOT rotate. -- Russ Wolfe '66 FB MT (It drove) '71 FB AT '65 Bug (not running) russw@classicvw.org http://www.classicvw.org ------------------------------------------------------------------- Search old messages on the Web! Visit http://www.vwtype3.org/list/