Check your engine electrical grounds. Should be one with good contact left side engine to left firewall. If it's the small braided cable replace with a plastic shielded battery style cable from local parts store. Check distributor cap, rotor button, and plug/plug wires next. The loud tapping noise sounds like a hydraulic lifter or two have bled out. Sometimes they'll pump back up. Might be good to check valve clearances if it hasn't been done yet.
Always check spark plugs first. Check the valve lash. I'm with you on not wanting to ruin the trim but self tapping the lights on may be a last ditch option.
Yeah had to do the self tappers. Just tired of dealing with those things everytime I work on it. Doing a full tuneup in the next Vanagon video. Plugs, wires, cap rotor and injectors. Filmed and scheduled. (spoiler: but it didn’t fix the problem 🫠)
Replace engine. 😅there’s no other better fix for misfire. You could try smoke testing the engine and see if you have a vacuum leak. Also..You’ve got a stuck lifter from the sounds of it.. sometimes lifter oil by liqui moly helps. I replaced my stuck lifter and it went right back after about 100 miles.. 😂 I say ditch the lights. I made curtains for my van using flat aluminum bars from Lowe’s.. then we hang small lights from the bars..it’s easy..
🫠 I’m hoping it doesn’t come to that! Very true about the vac leak. The hoses are rotten and that very well could be the issue. I’ll grab some lifter oil and try that too. Next Vanagon video (filmed and scheduled for release already) I did plugs, wires, cap and rotor and injectors. Improved power but it will still hesitate and stall out at times. 😩
@@TheSometimesBuilds sorry man.. it does sound like a leak of sorts. Vanagons are frustrating as heck.. even after I’ve replaced the engine, rebuilt the tranny, and gobs of other things…mine still has gremlins… there’s a reason why old people own them…it’s because they have patients for the continuous diagnosing of problems.. lol
Check your engine electrical grounds. Should be one with good contact left side engine to left firewall. If it's the small braided cable replace with a plastic shielded battery style cable from local parts store. Check distributor cap, rotor button, and plug/plug wires next. The loud tapping noise sounds like a hydraulic lifter or two have bled out. Sometimes they'll pump back up. Might be good to check valve clearances if it hasn't been done yet.
Always check spark plugs first. Check the valve lash.
I'm with you on not wanting to ruin the trim but self tapping the lights on may be a last ditch option.
Yeah had to do the self tappers. Just tired of dealing with those things everytime I work on it.
Doing a full tuneup in the next Vanagon video. Plugs, wires, cap rotor and injectors. Filmed and scheduled. (spoiler: but it didn’t fix the problem 🫠)
FYI hot glue melts at high temperatures. Like the kind you get in a car baking in the sun for days.
Liquid nails
Yeah didn’t last long at all.
Replace engine. 😅there’s no other better fix for misfire. You could try smoke testing the engine and see if you have a vacuum leak. Also..You’ve got a stuck lifter from the sounds of it.. sometimes lifter oil by liqui moly helps. I replaced my stuck lifter and it went right back after about 100 miles.. 😂 I say ditch the lights. I made curtains for my van using flat aluminum bars from Lowe’s.. then we hang small lights from the bars..it’s easy..
🫠 I’m hoping it doesn’t come to that! Very true about the vac leak. The hoses are rotten and that very well could be the issue. I’ll grab some lifter oil and try that too. Next Vanagon video (filmed and scheduled for release already) I did plugs, wires, cap and rotor and injectors. Improved power but it will still hesitate and stall out at times. 😩
@@TheSometimesBuilds sorry man.. it does sound like a leak of sorts. Vanagons are frustrating as heck.. even after I’ve replaced the engine, rebuilt the tranny, and gobs of other things…mine still has gremlins… there’s a reason why old people own them…it’s because they have patients for the continuous diagnosing of problems.. lol
You have worn lifters, put in some step oil treatment
I bought it just haven’t had time to get back around to the Vanagon. But it’ll be done in the next Vanagon series’ video for sure!
First and first inside 20 minutes