I decided that since it will be many days before the engine is complete, there will be plenty of time for that JB weld material to continue curing and I decided to reassemble the case and get a bit more done from where I left the AH build. The 1/2 case half needed one last…
AS41 Engine – Day 6 – The repair seems to have worked.
So yesterday’s plugging with the high heat JB Weld Epoxy Putty cured hard as a rock overnight. Both the interior plug and the exterior one, both covering the aluminum NPT plugs, do not feel like they’ll be going anywhere soon. On to other installations! Yay!
VW Type 1 Case Parts and Gasket Kits
When rebuilding an engine, or starting from scratch from a new case, there are a variety of additional items that need to be acquired to complete the assembly. There are a few critical kits out there from a few different manufacturers. Type 1 Gasket Kit The Type 1 Engine gasket kit is necessary to get…
Resorted a whole lot of parts.
While I was letting the case dry, I decided to rearrange how I am storing some types of parts. I had been sorting things for years by the project, or the specific car they are intended for, but I realized that isn’t really very optimal for the way I’ve been working. It has resulted in…
AS41 Engine – Day 5 – Transferring the innards!
So I I cleaned up the bearings and reset them from the AH case to the AS41 case and then transferred the assembled crank and the cam. I regressed some things, got the timing marks aligned between the cam and crank, and after a shitload of fiddling finally got the 3 bearings on the crank…
AS41 Engine – Day 5 – Final case prep, repair, and on last alteration!
The case got a final washing inside and out. I blew air through all the galleries and went through a few towels getting all the water out. I sat them in front of a fan for quite a while and that got them totally dry. The plugs went permanently in, as well as the return…
AS41 Engine – Day 5 – Prepping the oil cooler.
Out of all of the oil coolers I have, the one from the AH engine is in the best shape with no bent fins at all. I mean, that engine never was disassembled so my opening the tins was the first time in 44 years it had seen the light of day. While the exterior…
AS41 Engine – Day 5 – Cracking the AH block open again.
It was sad but I had to finally crack the AH block open today. It all came apart relatively easy. I mean, it is not like it has been together that long. I will say that I’m rather shocked that the aviation sealant seems to have disappeared off the case halves. Other than the bit…
Rocker Geometry – As good a time as any to learn it.
There are of course a few things I am generally ignorant about, or have never never had the opportunity to really learn. (There’s also the stuff like electrical work that I just downright hate.) Air-cooled rocker arm geometry, as it applies to the valve train as a whole, is one of those areas I’m somewhat…
AS41 Engine – Day 4 – Valve lapping day is here!
There seemed to be a lot of people in agreement on a lot of different forums that regardless of if an head is new that the valves should all be lapped. I tried to do it manually with the lapping tool I bought (below) but for whatever reason, that thing just would not work well…