Date: Sun, 24 Mar 2002 23:13:55 -0600
Reply-To: Stan Wilder <wilden1@JUNO.COM>
Sender: Vanagon Mailing List <vanagon@gerry.vanagon.com>
From: Stan Wilder <wilden1@JUNO.COM>
Subject: Re: Engine Rebuild - week 3
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Wrong Wrong Wrong ................ buy another set of rings and get that
one needed ring from the new set.
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*One of my new ones was chipped going back in, and luckily I had one
correct one left to replace it with.*
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If you put an old ring in there you just threw away all that you spent on
your rebuild job.
Remember garbage in garbage out. You've just built a 5000 mile engine.
Did you clean your ring groves so the rings will fully seat in the ring
lands? and have the proper clearance.
Jesus Man! You know right from wrong.
Stan
83 Westfalia Air Cooled
On Sun, 24 Mar 2002 20:01:46 -0800 Mark Mages <wasserbox@YAHOO.COM>
writes:
> Mon to Thurs - caught up on neglected work-work and
> homework while awaiting some parts
>
> Friday - Reinstalled pistons after facing them towards
> the CORRECT flywheel, as opposed to the incorrect
> flywheel that is on the other end of the engine :)
> After much de-burring of the #1 piston wrist-pin it
> went back in smoothly (after heated to 100+ degrees).
> A word of advice - save your old piston rings until
> you are all done. One of my new ones was chipped
> going back in, and luckily I had one correct one left
> to replace it with. Went for a short bike ride after
> that. Good thing too - dropped 30 deg. and started
> snowing today.
>
> Saturday - installed new boston engine cylinder heads.
> Installed the first one twice after forgetting the
> cylinder to cylinder head gaskets. Hooked up the fuel
> lines, H2O pump, oil cooler and a few other things.
>
> Sunday - THE DAY - with the help of my friendly
> neighborhood hippie, without whom I probably would
> have boxed this all up and taken it to the local shop
> long ago, we started at 8am and finished putting the
> engine back together. Drained and filled the tranny
> while It was lowered, replaced the rear selector arm,
> boots and bushing. Both the boots were hashed, and
> there was Zero grease in the rear bushing. Just a bit
> left in the selector. Around noon we put the engine
> back in the van (with much cursing and bleeding) and
> eventually hooked up all the sensors and hoses. There
> are a LOT of sensors and hoses in that engine.
> Somehow we eventually matched up everything. We got
> the exhaust in position to bolt up, but ran out of
> energy and daylight at about the exact same moment.
> In retrospect I should have put the exhaust on BEFORE
> putting the engine in, but I was not about to remove
> the engine again just to do that.
>
> So - I may actually meet my pre-Easter weekend
> deadline. I asked my girlfriend where she wanted to
> camp in Sedona during our long weekend to visit her
> family, and she just kind of looked at me blankly and
> said "Camp? I thought Sedona would be a day trip."
> Which makes me ask myself WHY IN THE ^%$@#$# I have
> been busting my hump for the last 3 weeks to get this
> back together... if we aren't going to camp, then we
> will be taking the car that gets 30mpg instead of the
> van with a freshly rebuilt (and somewhat suspect)
> engine 500 miles away...
>
> But it is all for the best - while the engine has been
> out my Sewfine carpet kit showed up... there is never
> a lack of projects when you have 2 1980's volkswagens
> at home. Then comes the Scirocco's G-Grind cam, and
> the sunroof rebuild, and the window rubber, and the
> propane system, then the bodywork and paint on the
> van, then the psychiatric ward, then some time by
> myself in a quiet country cottage by a pond - to
> recover from my breakdown, followed by years of
> therapy and weird hippie tantric excercises, etc......
> :)
>
> Sounds like fun - wanna come?
>
> =====
> Mark
> 84 Rocco
> 87 Westfalia
> 96 Rockhopper Comp (commuter)
> 98 Yeti AS-R XC (freeride)
> 01 Schwinn Fastback Ltd (in progress)
> http://student.fortlewis.edu/~mwmages
>
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