AVP rebuild installed 7/5/2006 by a local shop.
19,949 miles to be exact
before the motor was installed, we noticed this on the #3 side of the head:
9/14/2006 valve spring broken on #3 intake
the motor has always felt like it was lacking any power. much worse than the old one I had to replace (cracked oil pickup tube) with 150k on it.
MPG numbers: 2006:
13 /11.2 /13.5 /15.4 /15.1 /15 /12.34 /12.62 /13 /14.8 /15.2 /14.24
it always had an unusual noise coming from within.
early on Jake R mentioned that it sounded like a loose main bearing, and the sound confuddled Colin as well when he had a chance to hear it.
later we identified some of those odd noises as coming from the alternator, but never did nail down what the F it was.
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so the motor is out of the van now. this is from my 81 Westfalia.
the motor was still running when I pulled it. I was getting between 9-10 MPG over the past few months.
anywho, here's the pics of what I have taken apart thus far:
heads:
lifters:
#3
#3 and #4
#2
#1
remember that #3 valve shown at the top of the page with the shoddy work?
this is what it looks like now:
oddly enough the only cylinder that wasn't super low on compression, #4, appears to have had blow by:
what does it all mean? I don't know, but from what ive been able to look into so far - I think the lifter wear means they weren't able to turn inside their bore.
not sure why or if that means anything other than they wouldn't have worn well over time - if the motor was worth running past 20k miles....