Date: Mon, 11 Jul 2011 00:30:10 -0400
Reply-To: Dennis Haynes <d23haynes57@HOTMAIL.COM>
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From: Dennis Haynes <d23haynes57@HOTMAIL.COM>
Subject: Re: My latest Acquisitions....
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Shuffling might actually be a better description. What happens is that the
case halves can loosen and they pound out where the center webs for the
bearing meet. During a rebuild the when the case halves get torqued together
The deck between the cylinders gets pulled in. Now the cylinders are not
parallel with each other and the tops are not at the same height. So on goes
the head and a short time later the top gasket burns out. Sometimes they
make this neat chirping noise as it becomes a vibrating reed before part of
it disappears. So the head gets pulled and the gasket changed etc. and it
happens again. This is often accompanied with unexplained oil leakage near
the cylinders.
The air cooled engines do not freeze up or boil over. They just get soft and
change their shape when they over heat.
Dennis
-----Original Message-----
From: Scott Daniel - Turbovans [mailto:scottdaniel@turbovans.com]
Sent: Sunday, July 10, 2011 11:24 PM
To: Dennis Haynes; vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM
Subject: Re: Re: My latest Acquisitions....
'possible case twisting' ..............! ! !
that's why I never touch the things.
can anyone spell " u n d e r b u i l t." ?
lol.
"I'm sorry sir ..
your cases are twisted ....and your engine isn't even good for a core to
rebuild."
this is the kind of thing I *don't want to know* about in VW's ..and why I
simply do not touch air-cooled vw's.
----- Original Message -----
From: "Dennis Haynes" <d23haynes57@HOTMAIL.COM>
To: <vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM>
Sent: Sunday, July 10, 2011 7:56 PM
Subject: Re: My latest Acquisitions....
> The air cooled Vanagon engines do not require head removal to replace the
> push rod tubes. Remove the rockers and clips and the tubes will come out.
> Just o-rings. However rarely is it the o-rings that leak and if they do it
> is a sign of the engine overheating. The usual cause of leakage from the
> cylinder area is a combination of the heads loosening and the cylinder
> barrels pounding into the case or the case twisting. The oil leaking can
> be
> a sign of something more sinister happening.
>
> Dennis
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Vanagon Mailing List [mailto:vanagon@gerry.vanagon.com] On Behalf Of
> Jason
> Sent: Sunday, July 10, 2011 9:59 PM
> To: vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM
> Subject: My latest Acquisitions....
>
> Ok, so I've been busy the last few months hunting down a Westy. Now I've
> ended up with two! We purchased them to do an east coast trip with good
> friends of ours.
>
> The first one is an 83 Westy originally from California. We bought that
> one through Scott (thank you very much for a smooth transaction!) Its a
> nice clean van that just needed a good buffing and waxing. Everything on
> board appears to work, including the Behr in-dash a/c! (Huge bonus!)
> The
> original plan was to share this one with good family friends. Ben drove
> it
> from Oregon back to Ontario back in May. He stopped over at his in-laws
> in
> Vancouver and replaced the heads...would have been straight forward except
> one stud snapped while being torqued. (yes with a torque wrench) Engine
> back apart out of the van, many hours later the broken stud removed! No
> more issues, van cruised nicely the rest of the way home. I am very
> impressed how clean the van is for being all original. I might name it
> "White Elephant" since a rust free white Vanagon normally doesn't exist
> here
> in Southern Ontario! This one will receive a TDI swap when it is taken
> out
> of service for the winter.
>
> The second is an 82 Westy Aircooled. I am not a fan of the aircooled
> vans,
> but this one was priced right and fit the bill... I had never cancelled my
> Kijiji alert for "Westfalia" and this one came to my inbox. It was about
> 4
> hrs from my house, but I just happened to be visiting up at the cottage 15
> minutes away from it. The family selling it was leaving for a 3 year
> posting in Germany and had 2 weeks to sell it. We started thinking how
> nice
> it would be to travel with a 2nd van with both families. Drove it home
> yesterday! It felt a bit underpowered but realized when I got home the
> throttle was out of adjustment. Fixed that. It just needs a heater box
> and the push tube seals replaced on one side before our trip. I've never
> owned or worked on an aircooled Westy - can you pull the head with the
> motor
> still in the van? I've done it many times on the waterboxers. it's not
> as nice as the 83 we got from Scott, but its decent. A good buff and wax
> will have it looking ok. Anyone have a good used driver side heat
> exchanger?
>
> Here's a picture of the 2 vans:
>
> http://farm7.static.flickr.com/6126/5924097239_5cf2e474f8_z.jpg
>
> I've always had passenger vans, but these are my first Westies! We hope
> to
> get some good use and put some miles on them this summer. If anyone on
> the east coast (Nova Scotia) wants to meet up we'll be that way the first
> 2
> weeks of August. Now we just have to argue over who gets to travel with
> a/c! Happy travels,
>
> Jason Ewing
> 82 & 83 Westies
