[Vwdiesel] [Diesel-Vanagon] Check valves - long vs short?

[Shawn Wright]

On 4 Sep 2005 at 22:42, Libbybapa at wmconnect.com <Libbybapa at wmconnect.com> wrote:

> In a message dated 9/4/05 6:35:25 PM US Mountain Standard Time, 
> swright at zuiko.sls.bc.ca writes:
> 
> 
> > If I swap the valves, are there any pitfalls to watch for 
> > aside from losing all the little pieces?
> > 
> 
> The valves swap fine.  I have done so a coupla times.  You named the biggest
> potential pitfall.  The only other one is that there are little copper washers. 
> Sometimes they come out with the valves sometimes they don't.  Make sure each
> valve you're putting in has one, and not more than one.

Thanks, got it done, and only dropped one washer. I made a tool for snatching 
injector heat shields from an old screwdriver that works great on the washers. 
I'm feeling much better about getting this done in time after spending the day on it. 

Actually, I'm most happy about finding the injector shim that bounced on the floor last 
fall and disappeared! It fell into a very large box of random bolts & junk. I won't have 
time to test the injectors, so I just put them in with old shims and new nozzles. 
I also feel adapting the cooling hoses shouldn't be too bad now that I have them in 
place, since I have plenty of odd hoses to work with from my TD and WBX. 

The exhaust will prove the biggest hurdle, and nobody around here seems to sell the 
pieces I need, and shipping from the US is expensive and slow. I may end up just 
getting a shop here to do it in plain steel, or maybe I'll hack together a straight pipe 
and get the parts in the US next month. 

ps: The 5 speed shifter is certainly a nice piece of machinery - I hope it works as nice 
as it looks. :-)

Shawn Wright
http://zuiko.sls.bc.ca/~swright
'85 Jetta D 
'88 Westy 2.1L, soon to be 1.6TD 5 speed
 (see progress at http://members.shaw.ca/vwdiesels)
'82 Diesel Westy