Actually a good whack with a tapered thingy works fine. I made one on my
lathe out of aluminum and every time I have a head apart I whack the
tubes before I stick it back together. Mine never leak. At least in the
general mist of oil surrounding my engine there doesn't seem to be any
coming especially briskly from that area.
> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-fot@autox.team.net
> [mailto:owner-fot@autox.team.net] On Behalf Of Chris Kantarjiev
> Sent: Saturday, September 16, 2006 5:04 PM
> To: fot@autox.team.net
> Subject: [FOT] new pushrod tubes?
>
> We all know that the aluminum pushrod tubes are a ... flawed
> design at best. I've attacked the problem with epoxy and
> green loctite and they both sort of work, but nothing is perfect.
>
> I see that Moss is selling *new* pushrod tubes. I have to
> wonder how people are installing these - the originals were
> swaged, more or less. Seems like it must take a moderately
> fancy fixture to do a good job of this - or would it suffice
> to cook up some threaded rod with some tapered bits at either
> end, plus nuts?
>
> Thanks,
> chris
>
>
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