Re: What would happen if....

[William J Erikson <williamjosiah@juno.com>]

If I remember right, your car is an '87 8v, right? Then it's a solid
lifter, as far as I know. Sounds like your mechanic doesn't know VW's.
There isn't an obvious place to put shims in. You have to either take out
the cam or get a special tool to compress the valve springs.
	-Josiah



On Tue, 20 Jul 1999 10:38:19 -0400 (EDT) Robert H Luhrs
<rhl@student.umass.edu> writes:
>Let's just say that for some reason someone put a G-grind solid  
>lifter
>cam in a hydrolic lifter engine?
>and how would you be able to tell?
>Reason being: i had my mechanic put in a bunch o stuff:cat. dual 
>exhasut
>manifold/downpipe, and a g-grind, i toldhim to verify solid lifters 
>before
>he put it in, today i wenmt to have a cv boot replaced, and somehow it 
>cam
>up that he was like, oh yeah you had a hydrolic lifter engine, i was 
>like:
>are you sure? he said well, i couldn't see any place where shims could 
>be
>taken from so yeah he thinks it's hydrolic.  My car still runs very 
>well,
>still gets over 30 mpg, still pulls fine, any thoughts from anyone?
>thanks,
>Rob Luhrs
>
>
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