What did you do to your volkswagen today?

DiggerD wrote:Broke the accelerator cable this afternoon. It did not leave me enough to stretch back to the carb linkage. A couple of nylon cable ties and I was back on my way! Not pretty, but allowed me to limp home at half throttle!

I know how that feels, i used some flower arrangement wire to get home from Cumming once, about a 20 mile trip.

Worked on my Engine again tonight. Painted the case and studs. Installed the painted studs!

Progress.....








Will post more current pics as soon as I take some.

Me likey :Rockit:

Ordered 6volt LED lights so people can see my brake lights during the day.

look what i found connected to my crank



also measured my cylinders with a tape measure and they were 3 3/8 wide which is about 85.5 mm so I guess my engine was a 1600... that guy I bought it from saw me coming a mile away

Take some scotch brite and scuff the top of the piston clean. They will have it stamped on the top.

What size were you suppose to have?

92s the engine was supposed to be a 1835

Got the engine put back together, headers on the way. Just waiting now....

jshmnghm wrote:Got the engine put back together, headers on the way. Just waiting now....

Hope I don't have to wait as long as you... the carbs came in today and spent about 90 on rebuild kits emulsion tubes/holders main and air jets... another 309 on a forged crank size classified... yea baby cant wait, the carbs got me drooling there better looking in person oh yea and waiting on a quote on a merger 1 5/8 with chrome stinger 100 + shipping... giggity :Rockit:

Yesterday I welded a friends sand blaster. I also helpes Brad fix his westy. Installed a rear coupling to the shift rod and now it has all four gears. Now if we could only figure out why the engine keeps quitting. Some sort of electrical problem. I suspect the battery or alternator.

Today I test fit the 1776 to the buggy.

do you have an electronic ignition?

59suicide wrote:

jshmnghm wrote:Got the engine put back together, headers on the way. Just waiting now....

Hope I don't have to wait as long as you... the carbs came in today and spent about 90 on rebuild kits emulsion tubes/holders main and air jets... another 309 on a forged crank size classified... yea baby cant wait, the carbs got me drooling there better looking in person oh yea and waiting on a quote on a merger 1 5/8 with chrome stinger 100 + shipping... giggity :Rockit:

Well you live close to proflow, so it probably wont take as long. I am also putting this thing together in my driveway after work and on weekends. My wife and I just had our first baby 8 weeks ago and this is my first engine build, I am doing it myself so I am learning as I go. I think it will be worth the wait.

59suicide wrote:do you have an electronic ignition?

In the buggy and my bus I have Pertronix.

Brad's Westy is a FI type IV which I know very little about. It quit about four times on the test drive. Each time it seemed to do so after about three minutes of running. Then hooked up the jump box and it would start right back up again. Later hooked up a tester and the bus would quit as soon as you put a load on the battery. I'm 70% sure the bettery is toast. If not, I'm guessing the alternator. Dont think it's an ignition or fuel issue because it fires right back up after you hook up the jump box and runs great for a few minutes. Then it dies again and won't crank till it gets more juice.

jshmnghm wrote:

59suicide wrote:

jshmnghm wrote:Got the engine put back together, headers on the way. Just waiting now....

Hope I don't have to wait as long as you... the carbs came in today and spent about 90 on rebuild kits emulsion tubes/holders main and air jets... another 309 on a forged crank size classified... yea baby cant wait, the carbs got me drooling there better looking in person oh yea and waiting on a quote on a merger 1 5/8 with chrome stinger 100 + shipping... giggity :Rockit:

Well you live close to proflow, so it probably wont take as long. I am also putting this thing together in my driveway after work and on weekends. My wife and I just had our first baby 8 weeks ago and this is my first engine build, I am doing it myself so I am learning as I go. I think it will be worth the wait.

My first engine build also, hows the new one congratulations. Definitely will be worth all the wait, It will be all the much better when you hear that baby fire for the first time

bumblebuggy wrote:

59suicide wrote:do you have an electronic ignition?

In the buggy and my bus I have Pertronix.

Brad's Westy is a FI type IV which I know very little about. It quit about four times on the test drive. Each time it seemed to do so after about three minutes of running. Then hooked up the jump box and it would start right back up again. Later hooked up a tester and the bus would quit as soon as you put a load on the battery. I'm 70% sure the bettery is toast. If not, I'm guessing the alternator. Dont think it's an ignition or fuel issue because it fires right back up after you hook up the jump box and runs great for a few minutes. Then it dies again and won't crank till it gets more juice.

It "should" run just off the alternator alone without the battery hooked up, if that dosent happen then connection issues or its toast.

Spent Sunday with the help of DiggerD putting my 1600 engine back together. Got it cranking around 6PM. Man it Purrs. Can't wait to get it into the car. Still need to rebuild the Carb.

tronview wrote:Spent Sunday with the help of DiggerD putting my 1600 engine back together. Got it cranking around 6PM. Man it Purrs. Can't wait to get it into the car. Still need to rebuild the Carb.

You don't have that thing tuned yet!!?? lol

Seriously tho, thats a purdy running moter right thur!!

59suicide wrote:

My first engine build also, hows the new one congratulations. Definitely will be worth all the wait, It will be all the much better when you hear that baby fire for the first time [/quote]

No doubt!

taking axles and everything off the busted swingaxle again- trying to get everything ready for when the new one shows up.

Got all the rest of the engine tin back on today, finally figured out where the two small odd shaped pieces went. I had them marked, but had to twist them around, upside down, backwards to figure out where they went! I will know from now on though.

Started working on my $250 1969 van, complete with engine. I am doing some paint stripping and putting some primer. Looking for a link pin beam to do a conversion and get it on the road in the next coupld of months.

I love those early bays.

Painted some small seat bracket parts, repaired one of the safari latches, and made an extension for my accelerator cable so maybe it won't keep binding up and breaking!! Still planning to run a braided cable eventually.

got a $125 shipped a merged 1 5/8 exhaust with empi chrome stinger, gonna have to get a baffle for it, should look real nice under there.

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