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 helbus
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| posted on July 6th, 2015 at 08:15 PM |
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Time for an engine rebuild on the 1302S Bug.
After 11 years, 60,000 miles on a second hand unknown engine, there are symptoms that show that it is time to look at an engine rebuild. We are
putting aa litre of oil in for every 2 tanks of petrol, and I would assume it is burning as well as leaking, as 5 minutes is long enough to get a few
50 cent size puddles. It is getting very sluggish, and No. 3 cylinder is down 35psi over the others.
Anyway I had a couple of helpers, and this is what we found. The two boys 6 and 8 years old helped get the engine out, and that took 50 minutes, along
with the tuturiols along the way. They were very attentive and asked a lot of good questions.
They pulled the motor down to a long block, but including leaving the clutch and flywheel on. The idle valve on the carby was loose, and one of the
heater tubes was off. There was blocked fins galore, and both exhaust gaskets were blown, looking at the black soot around them.
The plan is to get a 1776 build with all stock heads and outer components, as they are all very good condition not long ago replaced, or not long ago
rebuilt.
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 modnrod
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| posted on July 6th, 2015 at 09:44 PM |
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Good stuff!
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wombatventures
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| posted on July 7th, 2015 at 05:57 PM |
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Awesome Pete, You're training next generation Dub lovers! That's Cool.
Pardon the pun but does that make them "DubRats"!
The Beetle won't know itself with all that extra power when you're done.
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helbus
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| posted on July 7th, 2015 at 06:35 PM |
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They will be DubCubs. Because they are in Scouting as Cubs. This is the sort of stuff they can earn a Special Interest Badge for. Maybe Handywork,
Engineering, or Collecting badge
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| posted on July 7th, 2015 at 07:10 PM |
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| Quote: | Originally
posted by helbus
They will be DubCubs. Because they are in Scouting as Cubs.......
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Some good childhood memories in the making there mate
One of mine is helping my Dad make valve cover gaskets for his Slant Six Valiant, and then degreasing the engine with sheep dip. (We lived in
Coonamble in the 60's)
"The best trophies are stone chips"
1969 1500 Beetle "Otis"
2008 Golf GTI
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helbus
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| posted on July 7th, 2015 at 08:35 PM |
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When you get good questions like "Why do bolts all do up clockwise?" Then there is some info in regards to the fact there are some LH thread
'nick' nuts, which I could show on a gas bottle. It is all worth it, because there are so many parts of the day that they will probably never forget
and may quote as a memory in 40 years time on a VW forum.
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adlbeetle66
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| posted on July 8th, 2015 at 12:07 PM |
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Wow! Thats pretty cool. I sometimes get my little 4 y.o brother to help me, he finds it more interesting to just belt things with hammers though!!
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| posted on July 8th, 2015 at 05:44 PM |
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| Quote: | Originally
posted by helbus
They will be DubCubs. Because they are in Scouting as Cubs. This is the sort of stuff they can earn a Special Interest Badge for. Maybe Handywork,
Engineering, or Collecting badge
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i would have gone on with Cubs if we could have done stuff like that.
Super Cool!
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barls
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| posted on July 8th, 2015 at 06:10 PM |
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looks like me helping grumble the only thing i can pick as a difference is they are way too clean from my memory of helping grumble.
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helbus
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| posted on August 15th, 2015 at 02:58 PM |
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Looks like the motor is ready for me to assemble al the tinware etc. back onto. Unfortunately I have stuff on over the next couple weekends. I had the
long motor, rocker cover to rocker cover, and fan pulley to flywheel assembled by an Australian VW Performance Centre.
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helbus
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| posted on August 24th, 2015 at 10:36 PM |
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Picked up the motor today. I have sand blasted and painted all tinware. Cleaned and reco'ed all ancilleries. I just need to assemble all, and then I
can take the motor back to be run on the engine stand to run the cam and lifters in, and the carby jetted, timing etc. Hopefully will be looking
around 70hp. Has been built 1776cc with W100 type cam and 8.7:1 comp ratio and lightened flywheel. Will be a smooth street low revving engine with the
ability to keep up better with modern traffic. Should outdo a Hyundai i20 pretty easily
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modnrod
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| posted on August 25th, 2015 at 06:53 AM |
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| Quote: | Originally
posted by helbus Hopefully will be looking around 70hp. Has been built 1776cc with W100 type cam and 8.7:1 comp ratio and lightened flywheel.
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Good little street formula, that'll make it nice to drive.
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adlbeetle66
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| posted on August 25th, 2015 at 07:28 AM |
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Nice, i will probably have similar figures, maybe a touch more 
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| posted on August 25th, 2015 at 08:06 AM |
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| Quote: | Originally
posted by barls
looks like me helping grumble the only thing i can pick as a difference is they are way too clean from my memory of helping grumble.
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That is probably true barls but your mum insisted that you had to get right into the "nitty gritty" of it and i do remember the small boy with the
"Woody Pecker" hammer and the resultant inevitable consequence.
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helbus
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| posted on September 7th, 2015 at 06:28 PM |
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Picked up the engine from being run in, tuned and jetted. I just have to fit it to the Beetle, and we are right to go. Just need to find time. I got
some new stainless tail pipes while I was at it too.
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helbus
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| posted on September 15th, 2015 at 11:31 PM |
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Finally tonight I fitted the engine. With work, Cub Scouts training, meetings, camps, nights out, interpack activities and other group visits, I have
had 5 out of 7 nights a week taken at the moment, and I drink for 1 and I devote the other 1 to my wife.
Took it for a drive. Awesome. Smooth, torquey and well fast enough for modern traffic.
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helbus
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| posted on September 16th, 2015 at 08:53 PM |
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And NO OIL LEAKS. Yay!
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