[Vwdiesel] low compression

[Doyt W. Echelberger]

Part of your adjustment will be to have a variety of shims on hand, once 
you figure out how to decide what shims go where.

This is a place to _buy_ new shims in a kit. ($ warning $)

http://www.techtonicstuning.com/main/index.php?main_page=advanced_search_result&keyword=valve+shims&categories_id=&manufacturers_id=&pfrom=&pto=&dfrom=&dto=&x=15&y=7

If the price is too high, go to a junk yard and pop the cam shafts out of 
half a dozen old VW's and throw the shims into your tool box. That should 
give you a pretty good assortment. Jetta diesels thru 1985 were solid 
lifters....at least mine were.

Doyt
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At 03:01 PM 8/11/2010, you wrote:
>Bryan;
>
>I think you may have hit the issue - checked with my old feeler gauge, the
>valve gaps are too tight.  So I'll get the valves adjusted to where they're
>supposed to be and see what happens.
>
>I've never adjusted valves - I seem to remember someone mentioning a "kit"
>that has different thicknesses of shims?  Or was that someone wishing that
>there were such a thing?
>Also - do you remove the cam shaft to take out the shims, or is there a way
>of weaseling them out without cam removal?
>And if the valve gap is too low, do you find the feeler that fits, then take
>the shim out and do some math to figure out the correct shim, or is it just
>trial and error of what to put in?
>
>Thanks again all,
>
>Chris
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>On Wed, Aug 11, 2010 at 1:28 PM, Bryan Belman <dieselwesty at yahoo.com> wrote:
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> > Is this a mechanical head?  If yes, get out the feeler guages.  Do a valve
> > /
> > lifter adjustment on the head with the shims.
> > That could be part of the low compression issue, rather easy to do I guess.
> >
> >
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