Date: Wed, 24 Jan 2007 13:45:38 -0500
Reply-To: Greg Potts <greg@POTTSFAMILY.CA>
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From: Greg Potts <greg@POTTSFAMILY.CA>
Subject: Re: Death Valley
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Hi Mike,
Back at EveryBus 2004 I hosted had a little gameshow called the Type
2 Troubleshooting Time Trials. Mark Dearing disabled a VW engine with
10 defects, and the teams of contestants had 20 minutes each to get
the engine running.
The best non-pro team did the job using the basic tools from a VW bus
toolkit: Phillips/Slotted Screwdriver, spark plug wrench and 10/13mm
open-end wrench.
http://www.everybus.com/%7Egreg_potts/pictures/dscn1250.jpg
A big sheet of cardboard folded and inserted under the mattress above
the engine compartment is also VERY useful to have along.
I've also been involved in three different campground engine pulls,
one of them being own my bus at BusFusion 2004. Benny-Boy and I had
it re-and-re'd to repair the clutch in less than 3 hours.
That being said... I wouldn't want to work on a WBX at roadside if I
could help it. But I would/could if I had to.
Happy Trails,
Greg Potts
1973/74/77/79 Westfakia "Bob The Tomato
www.pottsfamily.ca
On 24-Jan-07, at 11:54 AM, Michael Elliott wrote:
> Yeah but that's near your house and presumably within easy walking and
> driving distance of tools and parts.
>
> Setting aside the ATV jack that we'd all be wishing we'd packed before
> we headed out into the desert, I reckon that a fellow would need to be
> packing a pretty extensive list of tools -- and probably plenty of
> good
> beer for afterwards -- to pull off a WBX swap on the roadside out
> in the
> middle of nowhere. I don't want to start a "here's my tool list"
> thread
> because that's been done a gazillion times, but is there such a list
> published online? Coolant . . . and how about cleaning up spills so as
> not to leave a mess behind?
>
> --
> Mike "Rocket J Squirrel" Elliott
> 71 Type 2: the Wonderbus
> 84 Westfalia: Mellow Yellow ("The Electrical Banana")
> 74 Utility Trailer. Ladybug Trailer, Inc., San Juan Capistrano
> KG6RCR
>
>
>
>
> Jeff Stewart typed:
>> <But if you
>> could do that with a WBX engine, my hat is off to you. Your skillset,
>> the collection of tools you pack, and your confidence far exceed
>> mine>
>>
>>
>> I just did an R&R on a WBX engine in my '84 not too long ago, and
>> on the
>> gravel portion of my driveway, so similiar to being on the side of
>> the
>> road. Luckily, though, with the late arrival of winter here in the
>> mid-Atlantic area (Virginia, anyway) it wasn't too bad. I keep
>> hearing how
>> much worse it is to R&R a WBX over an aircooled (72-79), but
>> having done
>> both, I really don't think the WBX is THAT much more difficult.
>> The one
>> thing I would miss roadside is the ATV jack I bought (and should have
>> bought years ago) to do the WBX swap-it makes it so much easier
>> than trying
>> to balance the engine on a standard floor jack, but it's just too
>> big to
>> take along on a road trip! Jeff
>>
>> Jeff Stewart
>> fonman4277@earthlink.net
>> http://autos.groups.yahoo.com/group/vwcampersmidatlantic/
>>
>>
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