I haven't given more than a glance at the heads I took off. I'll check them tomorrow. Suspicious that the bent pushrod was from the side that had pushrod tubes replaced. 

If I get another year or two from the engine I'll be happy. 

cheers

alistair

On 2013-05-31, at 9:06 PM, Stuart MacMillan wrote:

> Nice work!
> 
> Alistair wrote:
> 
> "I forgot to mention before this that I found a bent pushrod when I took the
> heads off. If I remember correctly, it was on the side with the (leaking)
> spring loaded pushrod tubes. How does a bent pushrod affect the engine if
> the valve adjustment is done correctly?"
> 
> It can keep bending!  Not a big deal with hydraulic lifters though, at least
> to a point.  The real question is how did it get bent?   Usually that's from
> a broken valve, but it could have been a broken spring jamming things up
> too.
> 
> Hopefully you will get a lot of miles out of this engine for all the work!
> 
> Stuart
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Vanagon Mailing List [mailto:vanagon@gerry.vanagon.com] On Behalf Of
> Alistair Bell
> Sent: Friday, May 31, 2013 7:42 PM
> To: vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM
> Subject: that so called quick and dirty head replacement
> 
> Getting close to be finished. Getting tired of it now :)
> 
> blog posts of the ordeal here:
> 
> http://shufti.wordpress.com/
> 
> alistair