Date: Fri, 28 Mar 2003 08:53:59 -0600
Reply-To: Stan Wilder <wilden1@JUNO.COM>
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From: Stan Wilder <wilden1@JUNO.COM>
Subject: Re: Oil pump size differences? Boston Bob Customers?
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Doesn't it just really piss you off when people are talking about you
rather than to you?.
If I've got a question for Bob or any other vendor I either pick up the
phone and call or send an E mail addressing my concerns.
I've never had vague or miss leading responses from any list vendor.
Responses from 100 persons not building that engine are worth exactly
nothing.
References for a supplier or a product are a different story.
I have personally 'Shut Deals Down' on some of my engine / parts sales
simply because the purchasers went to the list first and got so pumped
full of crap that I knew a new OEM VW Engine in the original shipping
crate at $200.00 would not have made them happy.
I hope that this will be my only rant for Fiday.
Stan Wilder
83 Air Cooled Westfalia
Oil pressure is influenced by lots of things the viscosity and
temperature of the oil the clearances of the rod and main bearings to the
crankshaft journals the fit of the oil pump to the case and the thickness
of the gasket between the pump and the pump cover. One of the oil
pressure problems people have experienced when they buy a rebuilt or
reassembled engine is with the new after market oil pumps. These new
pumps don't fit as tight in the case and the pressure loss at oil pump
bore in the case and the pump body can be significant. All WBX gasket
sets I have seen include a gasket for the pump cover that measures
.006ths. The part number for these gaskets is the same as the old bug
gaskets those have always measured .004ths.that extra 002ths can cost
allot of oil pressure when the oil is hot.
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