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Re: [T3] SSSHHHHH....


On 19 Oct 2002, at 9:03, John Jaranson wrote:

> Sophy is getting a valve check-up this morning. Hoping that I don't find #2
> exhaust still receeding. 

I can't remember what we've already talked about, but my second engine 
rebuild was very short lived because I found that all the valves were 
"recessing" consistently. I finally tore it down again and found that, as Gene 
Berg had predicted, the cheap cam followers I had used were wearing 
quickly.) They were too soft (Berg had said so, and I confirmed this on a 
Rockwell hardness tester.)

All I did was replace the lifters with good ones and everything was fine after 
that.

Is it possible that you reused the old lifters and might one of those be a 
cheap replacement? Unfortunately I know of no way to tell by just looking at 
them. I think Berg sells single lifters, or I might be able to come up with a 
good used one, although I usually just replace them with good new ones and 
I may have recycyled all my old ones.

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