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From your previous post, you *can* take the rods out without splitting the case however I wouldn't recommend it.
-----Original Message-----
From: Denis Dodson
Sent: Sep 6, 2007 12:49 PM
To: tcb@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: [tcb] Re: Time to look for parts
Can't I take the pushrod off with a long extension after I take off the piston from the wrist pins?
The benefit for me of a stock muffler is in not in my top end, but my rear end. I don't drag a stock muffler. No exhaust leaks = engine very much happier.
I think what caused this is 7 years and about a million miles. I put in 6000+ miles last Sep-Oct-Nov alone. And I used my bus for a shop truck everyday for a couple of years while we lived in Dallas. Stuff wears out.
----- Original Message -----
Sent: Thursday, September 06, 2007 12:29 PM
Subject: [tcb] Re: Time to look for parts
To remove the push rods you will have to split the case. Running a stock exhaust will increase your low end torque by increasing back pressure but will decrease your top end speed.
Denis Dodson <coocoo@xxxxxxx> wrote:
Brian, you can run stock exhaust on a 1914. Thee deck spacers make the whole
engine wider by a 1/2 an inch, so you have to spread it a little.
Mark, I agree about doing it all while I am in the engine, but if it is
really not time for me to build a whole new engine, Where do I stop? If I
split this case then I should go ahead and get a Mexi/Braz FI aluminum, but
the I have to get all the machining done, and blah blah.
At this time I just want to replace the jugs, rings and pistons. I might
take out the pushrods and change the bearings, and I will inspect the heads,
but I just don't want to do a whole engine right now.
----- Original Message -----
From: "Brian Denning"
To:
Sent: Thursday, September 06, 2007 12:14 PM
Subject: [tcb] Re: Time to look for parts
> wait, wait, wait, can you really run a stock beetle muffler on a 1914???
> could that have something to do with the problem that you ended up having?
>
>
>>From: Mark Sawyer
>>Reply-To: tcb@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
>>To: tcb@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
>>Subject: [tcb] Re: Time to look for parts
>>Date: Thu, 6 Sep 2007 10:00:51 -0700 (PDT)
>>
>>It's always been my opinion that if your going to pull the heads then go
>>ahead and split the case and replace the bearings and the oil pump. no
>>telling what kind of trash has been introduced into the oiling system.
>>Your only talking another $50.00-100.00 worth of parts.
>>
>>mike@xxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:
>>I did the same on the engine in my thing a couple of years ago and it was
>>the
>>#3
>>piston and rings. When I pulled the heads you could see the grooves right
>>away.
>>A set of jugs and pistons with ring should do ya, but I would pull the
>>heads
>>and check it out, could be a valve or something else.
>>
>>
>>
>>Quoting Denis Dodson :
>>
>> > I will need new cylinders, pistons, rings, all that stuff. At this
>> > point
>>I
>> > will probably only change out those parts. There is the philosophy that
>>I
>> > should replace the pushrod bearings and do a valve job and there is the
>> > feelings that I should simply build a new engine.
>> >
>> > I am old and tired and cash poor, so cylinders it is (maybe). Someone
>>told me
>> > that I could buy the machined 88s with the pistons and rings already in
>>them
>> > an I could simply install them at the wrist pins. Anybody know where I
>>can
>> > find these and the prices? I have a source here for the 88s and pistons
>>but I
>> > haven't heard a price yet.
>> >
>> > For you mechanics out there. I have power loss and smoke on the
>>backstroke.
>> > Rings or burnt piston.
>>
>>
>>
>>
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