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On 4 Oct 2004 at 21:34, Jim Adney wrote: > On 4 Oct 2004 at 8:49, Roush, Norman wrote: > > > When I removed the RH valve cover to adjust the valves on my 68 > > Squareback Saturday I noticed one of the wavy washers on the rocker > > shaft had broken. And Jim replied: > Odd, I never saw a broken one. The other half will probably not give > you any trouble, and it might still be around the rocker shaft. I have > good used ones here, but they should be easy to find almost anywhere. > I don't think that there's any way you could have expected to notice > this any earlier. I'll add: I've had a few of these break lately. Some on my '68 Bus and a couple on my '68 Squareback. I replaced the ones on the Bus but when they started to fail on the Square (which I drive every day) I bought a shim kit from Gene Berg and got rid of the wavy washers. Martin Garramone Austin, Texas 1968 Squareback 1968 Westfalia ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ List info at http://www.vwtype3.org/list | mailto:gregm@vwtype3.org ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~