Engine – Day 10 So the bearings needed to be checked to confirm placement of the oil gallery of the bearing against the oil supply hole in the saddle. There is enough disparity between the bearings available today as well as the machining of the oil gallery holes in the case that can constrict oil…
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Murbella – Day 45 – Distributor Gear Final Install and Oil Pressure Valves
Engine – Day 9 Distributor Gear Endplay The distributor pinion gear which I’d previously installed needed to have its end play checked against the case. This is a pretty simple task to do and I’ve never had or seen an engine where this is a problem but apparently it can be so. I’d imagine with…
Murbella – Day 45 – End play determined!
Engine – Day 9 So today I was back to work determining what direction I would finally end up going with the end play situation. Given all of the input I’ve received from people I trust, as well as other random comments on similar situations I’ve read, I decided to move forward and go with…
Murbella – Day 44 – Still dealing with end play
Engine – Day 8 So I tore down the crank and flywheel yet again and cleaned up the surfaces and pins and reinstalled it all, doing my best to put as much force onto the crank to drive it down as much as possible. I then torqued the gland nut as much as possible outside…
Murbella – Day 44 – Block-Offs and Camshaft Redone
Engine – Day 8 Ran out this morning and picked up some additional nylok nuts and some jam nuts. The original plan was to use the jam nuts on to create the lowest profile for the fuel pump block off plate. I coated the gasket in Gascacinch and installed the block off. However, I ended…
Murbella – Day 43 – In which something is not right!
Engine – Day 7 So as I’ve mentioned in other posts, I was going to try to do the method of initial end play determination up front like shown in the Bug Me Video Volume 3 crank assembly guide. I figured it would be good to just add this in now, and then have that…
Murbella – Day 43 – Final engine items arrive!
So the final engine items arrived from CB Performance. Their fuel pump block off plate is much nicer looking than the crappy EMPI one and a bit thinner as well. I’d still like to get some shorter studs and then top it off with 2 lower-profile jam nuts to not add too much to the…
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…