push rod tube gasket help, help,

[M_atthewanderson]

How can you replace the push rod tube gasket without taking the engine out. how about those spring loaded push rod tubes? cut mine off then put those in?
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matthew anderson
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1980 2.0 Sunroof Vanagon

[vwkess]

No need to cut them. Easy to take out without damaging them. I made a simple tool years ago. It's just a threaded rod with a rubber hose pushed on the end of it.
Just take your rocker shaft off and pull out the pushrod. Insert the tool into the pushrod tube and pull out.
I'll post a pic of the tool in the morning...

[M_atthewanderson]

like this one


http://cgi.ebay.com/ebaymotors/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?Vi...ename=WDVW


or like these ones
scroll up on the empius site

http://www.empius.com/p/pushrods.html#protectors

part #9136-9095
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1980 2.0 Sunroof Vanagon

[mightyart]

I don't see what good the spring loaded push rod tubes are, you still have to take the push rods out to change them. It takes a good ten seconds to remove the tube once the rod is out. Just get new seals from bus depot and change what you have. The hardest part is making sure you put the stuff back together the way it was. The long retaining spring can be a pain, but otherwise it's pretty easy.
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[mightyart]

The trick is to use a set of vice-grips, set them so they are tight enough to grip the tube without crushing it, then start wiggling it around till you break the seal, once you break the seal they should come right out. This is for aircooled which is what Matt has. I don't know nufin about no waterboxers
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