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Originally Posted by smoken02
Is this easier to do with the head off? Or is it a pain either way?
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The head really makes no difference. The hard part for me (and my friend that was giving me a hand) was getting the tappets stood up in the tray so I could stab it with the dowel straight enough to pull it through the tappet bore. Of course, we started on #6 cylinder, so our learning curve as a bit long. By the end we had it down to about 2 minutes a tappet from lubing it up, to having it secured on the end of the dowel in the bore. Long narrow magnets and the pump/tappet cover off made a big difference.
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'98 3500 2wd, 24v, 5 spd, p-pumped
'98 2500 4wd, 12v, 6 spd, VP'd
'02 VW Jetta, 5 spd.
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