| Kommercial |
Thu Jun 12, 2008 5:45 pm |
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I bought this 36 engine to get the fuel pump and i noticed it has some strange things on it. No pre heat, strange throttle tube, cylinder head tin etc. Anyone know what it may have been used for? Industrial?
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| johnshenry |
Thu Jun 12, 2008 6:59 pm |
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| Most industrials I have seen have magneto distributors. But that is definitely an odd duck..... |
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| Glenn |
Thu Jun 12, 2008 7:05 pm |
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johnshenry wrote: Most industrials I have seen have magneto distributors. But that is definitely an odd duck.....
John,
i've seen a number of Type 122s with mechanical distributors.
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| splitjunkie |
Thu Jun 12, 2008 7:05 pm |
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| there was several vehicles in the 50's that used the VW engine. It probably came out of one of those cars. |
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| 52HoffmanSplit |
Thu Jun 12, 2008 9:55 pm |
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| No doubt.. very odd. The cylinder tin is really interesting.... obviously the stock stuff interfered with the mounting in whatever car it was in. That tin looks pretty professionally done.. not a butcher job. Hmmmmm :-k |
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| virtanen |
Thu Jun 12, 2008 11:56 pm |
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| Engine number? |
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| Bengt H |
Fri Jun 13, 2008 3:39 am |
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| They whwere used in many different places, farming machines, lift trucks, startingengines in tanks, electricity generators, weldingmashines, waterpumps etc etc. Tinware, electricity, flywheel etc had to bee adapted for all this different places. |
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| Kommercial |
Fri Jun 13, 2008 7:47 am |
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| dirtbug |
Fri Jun 13, 2008 11:31 am |
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| A good friend of mine Adam sold it to you. I checked it out in the back of his truck at the Classic. The numbers tell me it is an August '57 case. Thats funny, the first thing I noticed when I was looking over the motor was the VW stamp on the fuel pump. Don't see many of those. The tin work is clean along with the odd accelerator tube on the fan shroud. The motor did come from the low desert east of San Diego where it sat for years. It may have been in one of the first buggies back in the '60s, who knows, but definitely interesting. |
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| towd |
Sat Jun 14, 2008 3:54 pm |
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I vote for early buggy motor also...the cylinder covers are very tipcail of that....what you see at the head nut was formed into the stock cover ... brazing the tube into the shourd was common.. you see where they screwed the covers to the shourd,, that dunebuggy
to remove the perheat tube is just melting the alum away..
I bet the extra stamping by the S # is the guy that rebuilt the motor.. I use to stamp every motor I did..
take it apart maybe it has a good stroker crank inside or an old school cam |
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