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posted on March 16th, 2004 at 06:50 PM
am I right? rear timware
another semi-idiotic question
danielles beetle has been missing the rear tinware from the motor, since we got it, so we picked up a reasonably good condition part from the
wreckers.
but when we went to fit the tin to the motor, it was too narrow across the preheat pipe cutouts, well it was too narrow all up by an inch or so.
I'm going out on a limb and guessing the tin is from a 1300 or smaller engine, and it wont fit as we have a 1500 based engine?
does this sound right? the beetle we scavenged it off was an earlier model with the wide 5 drum brake front end, and we have the late 4 stud with
front discs as per 1500 beetle
PS anyone interested in swapping a good 1200 tin for a decent 1500 item
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posted on March 16th, 2004 at 07:16 PM
I think you have the rear tin from a 40hp 1200 motor. The stroke on a 1200 is 64mm as where the 1500/1600 you have has a 69mm stroke which makes the
motor slightly wider!
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posted on March 24th, 2004 at 07:47 PM
hehe... i think steve is right
Keep on soldiering on! Its difficult to know things like this when you havent ever worked on a complete well maintained one
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posted on March 24th, 2004 at 09:58 PM
oops, the wrong user syndrome strikes again, Ryan posting here.
well, I had a marvel of an idea, and after running it past my brother, we both agree it may work.
six holes line up with bolts or threads in the other tin thats there, or the heads etc, and the only bit that doesnt line up is where the inlet
preheat pipe cutouts are. since we dont have anything across the back at all, I am going to trim the cutouts so it fits.
I dont think it will completely seal, but its a very average looking bit we have (was in a burnt out beetle) and anything will be better than whats
there
[Edited on 24-3-2004 by lulu94]
1968 pearl white beetle:kiss
1600 engine
soon to be supercharged
1970 and 72 Squarebacks 70 soon to be rotor powered
