Engine – Day 10 Unfortunately, I need to built my cranks veristically which I am not a fan of. I really need to figure a way to weld a gland nut to a flange so I can mount it horizontally to my workbench to built and torque that way. Now my goal today was to…
Murbella – Day 46 – Notching the bearings
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…
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…
Reference: Hot Rodding Type 1 Engines (1983)
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…
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…