Crank Pulley oil threads gouged

[Slappy768r]

[Slappy768r]

So...after further contemplation, and consultation, I decided to take the entire engine apart. I found all of the bearing to be shot completely and the lifters need to be replaced. And the no. 3 cylinder was pitted beyond repair. The crank was fine, Gene at MBM checked it for me. He’s the only VW guy around here. Yay...
Quick note first, the engine specs:
After market Auto Linea case with dual releaf
69 mm stock (non counter weighted) crank
Stock connecting rods
Stock VW cam that seems to be reground. It measures approx. .399” lift w/ 1.1:1 rockers. I cannot measure the duration.
94mm Mahle pistons and sleeves
CB Performance 044 heads w/ 40mm intake and 35.5 exhaust valves, and not ported. 1.1:1 rockers with solid rocker shaft and HD single springs.
I run dual Kadrons with I believe 32mm venturi’s that Kaddyshack sent be the jets for when I upped the venturi size. (I know, Weber IDFs are better, but I’m not made of money, and I’m not racing the thing)
Stock heaters and Empi GT style, two tip 1 3/8” exhaust. It has the extra tubing from cylinders 2 and 4 to match the J tube length. Not sure if that is a “Merged” or not.
When I put that exhaust on a few months ago, I had to remove the screw on oil filter that hung off the oil pump, and I went with no filter, due to the new exhaust being in the way. And I was planning on doing a full flow later. Previous exhaust was the Empi GT style four tip.
Sooooo... back to current. When I took the case apart, the oil was glittery with metal bits, yay... As far as the gouge in the crank pulley area, the VW guy here said that I should be able to flatten to high spot and it shouldn’t leak anymore. He thinks that because of the condition of the no. 3 sleeve, that I was getting g excessive blow by. It was pretty bad.
I’m doing new bearings all around.
New pistons and sleeves set. Gonna stay with 94mm.
New Scat C35 cam and Scat lifters
New exhaust valves
Having the intake valves reground and all the seats recut by a machinist. They were all leaking. Yay...
Full flow oil system (might as well, right? I have the case apart)
New engine hardware
And will replace my built-on “leaky style” valve covers with stock bale type, black ones.
That should be it. Just slowly buying the parts and gonna start potting it back together here in the next month or so.
I’ll post pics if anyone wants. Just let me know.
Thank you for all the help! It was much appreciated! And to mukluk, Gene at MBM, or you mentioned Action Auto (Two different companies that share office space) was the guy that I took my engine parts to, and had him check them out. Thank you for telling me about him.
Thank you all again for the replies!!

[mukluk]

Good to hear you've got things on track, please do post up pics and keep us up to date on progress.

I couldn't remember the name MBM, always been pretty bad recalling names, but Action Auto sounded familiar... I had to remember how I used to drive down to the place using Google Maps to verify it was the one I was thinking of... PCS'd out of there back in May of 99.

Why not Minot? 'Cause it's F'n cold.
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[volksworld]

currently have an engine with an autolinea aluminum case apart and was googling what problems these cases have...found a post on a european forum called volkszone from 2008 with a guy complaining about the same case/pully issue and the replies being that this was a common issue with these cases

[Slappy768r]