I did a rebuild using the Muir book on an Airboxer. It was not a piece of cake and I kept running into problems. I would stop work until I had the answer. I had a workbench in my garage. I worked slowly. It worked fine after I finished and I had a feeling of accomplishment. I had the most difficult time getting the end play exactly correct without the proper tool. There is one more think I would do, if I went through it again; I would have an engine stand. The 2000 is a heavy engine for one guy to wrestle and turn on the bench. Bill ----- Original Message ----- From: "Karl F. Bloss" <bloss@ENTER.NET> To: <vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM> Sent: Monday, December 06, 1999 10:46 PM Subject: Engine rebuilding resources
Well as I get deeper into this head gasket job, I'm hearing more voices telling me to go for the full rebuild. Having never done more than change the oil on my cars up to about 3 years ago, I'm working my way up the DIY shade-tree mechanic ladder. Thus I was hoping to just do the head gaskets and let that be the lesson from this engine. But now that the engine is on the floor and I have time (it's a spare engine and the gaskets in Bev's engine aren't leaking _that_ bad :-), I keep hearing it's just a bit more work and a few more $ to crack the case, do the bearings, probably rings, etc. Ron at the Bus Depot even offered the loaner VW tool kit for wrist pins and he's "just around the corner" from me. So where do I read up on rebuilds? I have the Muir Idiot Guide, but skipped the rebuild sections so far. I hear about a Fisher book, I check on Amazon.com and found the Wilson and Grissom book about aircooled VW rebuilding. Any other suggestions? -Karl Karl and Kristina Bloss, Trexlertown, PA '87 Westfalia Weekender "Beverley" - 190K miles http://www.enter.net/~bloss/vw/ PA/NJ Vanagon owner's mailing list: http://www.enter.net/~bloss/vw/pavanagon/ |
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