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RIP to an old friend - My 1776

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Euro_67 Wolfsburg Wizard

690 posts · joined Oct 2003 ·

#1001187
After 11 years of faithful service, my 1776 let go tonight.
The engine came with the '67 and I can account for about 11 years of its life starting in '93 when my good friend picked up the beetle initially. I have owned it since 2006.

It has been a good sport, and happily took what ever was thrown at it. Originally it started out with Kadrons. Run on saw the end of them though, and a set of 44 IDFs were promptly installed. Soon after an upgrade to EFI followed. Complications with the EFI, in particular a very heavy throttle pedal saw the 1776 back on carbs again. This time it was 45 DRLAs. This is how it remained, and ran perfectly until today.

Rest in peace old girl. Thanks for all the good times.

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To the engine builders amongst us, I would like some opinions on what may have caused this. I am guessing cam failure, based on the case damage and what looks like the cam gear protruding through the case.

I run both oil pressure an oil temp gauges, and watch them religiously. The oil temp was about 80c, and the oil pressure about 200kpa. I was in 4th gear at about 3500 rpm after just joining the M1 heading north at Kariong.

Oh, and if anyone has a cheap 1600 TP for sale to get me going in the interim, please let me know.

1303Steve Scirocco Rare

8,650 posts · joined Aug 2002 ·

#1001195
Hi

I've never seen that sort of damage before, maybe the crank broke and pushed the crank gear down. Was that a Shimo motor?

Steve

Euro_67 Wolfsburg Wizard

690 posts · joined Oct 2003 ·

#1001206
Hi Steve,
It was a shimo motor.
Possible cam gear rivet failure?

vlad01 Compulsive Aussie Vee Dubber

4,270 posts · joined Jun 2010 ·

#1001217
please do open it up and post pics, I love seeing engine failures, they are so interesting to investigate.

Could be anything, but I have seen type 1 69mm cranks snap in half before. Not sure about this one though.

how did it stop, noise then bang? or just abruptly?

71 notchback,
Past owner of, 70 NB, 73 SB and 72 FB TLE

Euro_67 Wolfsburg Wizard

690 posts · joined Oct 2003 ·

#1001231
No noise, just an abrupt loss of power, and then smoke from the oil draining onto the exhaust.

Grey 57 Old Grey Cruiser

2,937 posts · joined Aug 2002 ·

#1001251
Looks like the cam gear has shattered.

vw54 Administrator Always Waiting 4 Friday

16,723 posts · joined Aug 2002 ·

#1001496
Wayne are you still in Campsie he may have something laying around to get you out of trouble
I read it on FACEBOOK so it must be true


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Euro_67 Wolfsburg Wizard

690 posts · joined Oct 2003 ·

#1001502
Hi Dave,
Im up the central coast these days. As luck would have it we were moving the '67 to our new house when it broke.
I commute to work at Rhodes, so Campsie isn't too far.

Thanks,
Wayne.

Euro_67 Wolfsburg Wizard

690 posts · joined Oct 2003 ·

#1001503
I did try calling VVDS last week, and when the phone rang out I remembered Warwick was on.