[tcb] I been busy
- From: "Denis Dodson" <coocoo@xxxxxxx>
- To: <tcb@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Sun, 10 Sep 2006 20:43:17 -0500
So, Steve and Sharon's bus was being towed by my truck on my trailer and Murray
was running really well for about 800 hours but then developed a strange tiny
popping backfire. We put Murray back onto the support vehicle and got him home.
I replaced all the exhaust studs and nuts and gaskets but still had the noise,
then while I was test driving to check for the noise I lost a bunch of power an
developed a real exhaust growl. I got home and pulled off the valve cover on
the 3-4 side and found a nut and a little cup looking thing and a ball with one
flat side. Anytime you take off a valve cover and find parts in it, that is
bad. The swivel adjuster screw on #4 had broken off and the pushrod was jammed
to the side.
I managed the miracle of finding an adjuster screw on Saturday and was very
lucky not to have a bent pushrod or a damaged pushrod tube. And now everything
is fine and the engine sounds fabulous.
It brought up a question: I had never seen any adjusting screw except the
swivel. When I built my engine it was part of the rocker assembly. When I got
the replacement Saturday, I looked at it and said, "this isn't the same", "No,
that is the original". A simple stud wth a nut. It simply cannot break. Is
there any bebifit to a swivel adjuster? I was told that they are better for the
valves, but I don't know.
And a new wierd VW story. When I went for a test drive the bus was running
really badly, it was missing really bad and jerking. I thought, this engine has
just had it. I made it back to the garage and opened the engine door. I had
only attached one of the clips to the distributor cap. The cap was open at an
angle. How could the engine run at all?
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