Stumbled along some old VW hot rodding videos from 1983 that someone posted to YouTube. Pretty dated, which some of the products in the discussions no longer available or the companies themselves not around anymore. However, there’s some excellent build info and procedures here as everything done today with Type 1 engine building pretty much…
Month: June 2020
Reference: YouTuber VWDarrin
One of the most useful resources I’ve had the pleasure to watch are the videos from YouTuber VWDarrin. His many videos over the years, especially those that pertain to engine building, have helped me a great deal in learning alternative ways of doing things. While I am often a “book guy” when it comes to…
Murbella – Day 42 – Cam gear and bearing installation
Engine – Day 6 With the case clean, I could start some other installations. I always wondered how many of these universal cases actually end up being used for Type 3s given there are so few Type 3s around anymore. I mean, I get why it is best to make this universal, but it is…
Murbella – Day 42 – New case prep and cleaning!
So today was all about prepping the new case and making sure some of the basic tolerances are there as well as some of the problems I found yesterday get fixed. The as I do with all prior builds, I need to mod the case just slightly to allow for the use of double-thrust cam…
Murbella – Day 41 – New case arrived!
Engine – Day 5 Initial Case Inspection The new case arrived today and it is a VW Brazil Universal Case. I wasn’t quite sure what it would be as not all vendors really clearly indicate what the source of their basic stock cases are. I’ll say this. There is not a whole lot of clean…
Murbella – Day 40 – Awesome Powdercoat stuff!
So a new set of replacement thermostat flaps and and FI thermostat arrived from Awesome Powdercoat up in Vanlue, OH arrived and man it is nice. Now VW stopped producing replacement thermostats decades ago, and the Mexican Beetles ended up using a much different, through still roughly compatible thermostat. I wanted to reinstall what was…
Reference: End play stuff!
I had a whole lot of end play measuring issues on the 2019 New Build and I do not want to repeat them so I’m going to go over a bunch of people’s different info on setting end play, and will likely attempt to determine the shim sizing with the crank during build assembly, much…
Murbella – Day 39 – Unhappy Fan Shroud
So I can’t say my first 2 paint passes came out very well on the fan shroud. Hell. A couple of other pieces either. I ran out of the first can of the satin black so I went to one of the new cans I bought the other day and it was with this can…
Murbella – Day 39 – Crankshaft and rod cleaning.
Engine – Day 4 Crankshaft The crankshaft had the last of the cosmoline removed, as well as the oil passages cleaned and brushed out. I went over everything about 4 times and I was seeing nothing coming off on the paper towels. Now I am not sure if I’ll get to assembling the crank today…
Murbella – Day 39 – Manifold mock-up!
So while I was waiting for various tins to dry , I decided to do a mock-up of the new injectors in the the restored manifolds so see what kind of hose adjustments do I need to make. Now I originally had everything assembled and then tried to place the injectors into the manifold as…