blobaugh's 65 Deluxe Transporter Resto-ish

[Eric&Barb]

Make sure to install foam rubber tape over the dog house oil cooler to seal it to the fan shroud. You need all the cooling air going thru the cooler.

Take the fan shroud and a couple of nuts to your local muffler shop and have someone weld one of the nuts into that ragged hole to mount the coil properly. Second nut is in case you or the shop person loose the first nut.

Have you checked the valve rocker geometry??? Rocker adjusting screws need to become parallel with the valve stems halfway thru the push rod travel.
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[Andrew oval]

I would check whether the associated push rod has been become bent as a result of the stuck rocker arm.
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Any thoughts on what the noise in this valve may be? I was rolling the motor over by hand, to listen for noises, and this one popped up. It is on cylinder #2

https://www.youtube.com/shorts/lsPp3mJpPl8

[Eric&Barb]

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Noise fixed. Buddy came over, listened to it and said, “valve lash is off.” Womp womp. Sure enough, the lash was off enough that it was making that noise. Redid all the valves and no more noise….

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I heard something a while back that I finally got to try out….

For several years I lived next to a cement place and it wreaked havoc on paint. I had been living with heavily oxidized paint that would turn you blue if you brushed against it. Randomly, I ran across a person recommending the Magic Eraser for taking out the oxidation. Figured I would give it a shot. The results are astounding! The oxidation came right out. Even some of the shine came back to this tired old paint (it is a single stage repaint). I have gotten prematurely excited about other products, so this sat for a few weeks and is holding up perfectly fine.

Here is a before photo

And a shot after

BTW- a buddy of mine is a pro detailer. I previously had him look at it, and due to the age and single stage of the paint, said not to attempt a buffer because it would rip the paint right off. True or false I dunno, that is just the guidance I had been living with!

Also got the motor all ready and prepped to go back into the Bus. Added some pink, because why not. It was at hand from a project I had done for my daughter. Makes the oil drips easier to see . Though I did run out before the top tin…. Oh well. Planning on replacing that with a ventless tin soon anyways.

[zozo]

I used a buffer. Same paint, before and after. It may thin at places where you’d expect, but it’ll shine. Is yours original paint?

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Got the motor back in. It is running strong!


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And true to how this build has been going.....broke something else on the first drive.....

Did my transmission just break?

So next up on the project list is....remove the motor again. haha. Some day this Bus will be drivable again.......