Squeaky Clean 68 - Father/Son Project

[TDCTDI]

Looking good.

If you really want to improve the drivability, lose the 009 & get an original SVDA distributor.

The vacuum advance & correct advance curve gets rid of the need to, what I call, “three blip slip” technique that everyone ultimately adopts to get a 009 equipped engine off the line. With a proper distributor, you just roll into the accelerator pedal, & the car just accelerates away without the bucking or hesitation.
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Everybody born before 1975 has a story, good, bad, or indifferent, about a VW.


GOFUNDYOURSELF, quit asking everyone to do it for you!


An air cooled VW will make you a hoarder.


Do something, anything, to your project every day, and you will eventually complete it.

[wrdrew]

[wrdrew]

[radstude]

A very different attitude, with it's lowered!
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1967 VW Fastback (Past)
1971 VW Bug (Past)
1975 VW Bus (Past)
2002 VW Mexican Bug 1600i

[wrdrew]

[wrdrew]

Little update..

Took the bug out for a Thanksgiving morning Starbucks run with my wife the other morning, and a day that started with a great cruise, ended with a driveway covered in oil and my dad and I pulling the brand new engine back out.

Left the car out in the drive when we got back so our family could see it when they were pulling in, and when we started it to move it back in the garage in the evening, it puked oil all over the driveway.

Even while it was puking, it was running very well for the 5-10 seconds it ran before we shut it off after we noticed. Looks like maybe the oil cooler or oil cooler seals were leaking? Best we could tell, the oil cooler vent in the fan shroud appeared to be where the oil was running down from..

Ordered a new cooler and seals, and we'll compression test it as well after we get it put back together.

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Ugly, Slow, Noisy, Expensive

1968 Beetle
https://www.thesamba.com/vw/forum/viewtopic.php?p=8965092#8965092

[VW_Jimbo]

Looks like it got over tightened. You do not bolt that cooler to its manifold straight away. There are shims typically placed in between the two pieces for a proper fit. Read the Bentley manual.
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Jimbo

There is never enough time to do it right the first time, but all the time necessary the second time!

[Buggeee]

That new driveway! Good luck on the diagnosis. Such a pretty bug.
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72 Super Duper http://www.thesamba.com/vw/forum/viewtopic.php?t=672387
(adopted out) 61 Turkis Pile https://www.thesamba.com/vw/forum/viewtopic.php?t=728764

[wrdrew]

[wrdrew]

[wrdrew]

Not much of an update. Engine is pulled and we're just waiting on a new rear main seal and the oil cooler/seals to show up. Any tips and tricks to get the new rear main installed properly?

Also, it's officially 4 years today since my dad and I bought the bug. She's come a long way since she left that lonely garage in Arizona and showed up on a truck in Indiana a week later.

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Ugly, Slow, Noisy, Expensive

1968 Beetle
https://www.thesamba.com/vw/forum/viewtopic.php?p=8965092#8965092

[riva]

I binged through the four years of this thread today. Congrats on the 2019 2020 life achievements, also congrats on reaching your car achievements!

[wrdrew]

[Busstom]

I just cracked your thread open for the first time. Wow, that dash was a mess, great job undoing all the hackery, looks so much better now. TIG is nice, ain't it?
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My name's Steve and it's pronounced "Bust 'em" (cuz people think I'm Tom) 😏

[wrdrew]

[BMFBMF]

Ive just been though this with my oil cooler leak (although the seals were 25 years old in my case).

Dont just Believe "it needs spacers" or it "doesn't need spacers", it depends on if parts are original or not. The easiest way is to lightly hold the parts together on the bench with the seals in place and measure the gap between the little raised spacers on the cooler and the face of the flange (or any face you can measure to show the difference with and without seals. You want there to be about 35 % "squish" (difference between uncompressed seals and compressed seals) . Then when you torque the nuts down to the spec the cooler and the flange are solidly touching each other with the correct squish of the seals. You can also use bluetack to measure the final squish but dont get any into the cooler. Buy the best seals you can get.

If the seals will squish more than say 45% then you need to look at a spacer thickness that will give you around 35%.

Nice bug...

[wrdrew]

Got the motor put back in today. Upon inspection, we could see that one of the oil cooler seals was pinched which allowed the oil to pour out. How this took 400 miles to leak is beyond me. Replaced the entire oil cooler for peace of mind, and replaced the rear main seal as well. I think of it as cheap insurance. Ran the engine for about 5-10 minutes on the stand without the fan shroud on it to make sure we could see if there was any leakage and we were solid.

Took the car for a freezing cold test drive after it was back in, and she ran great. Pulled well up to nearly 80mph and not a drop of leakage (beyond the normal territory marking). Glad to have her back!

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Ugly, Slow, Noisy, Expensive

1968 Beetle
https://www.thesamba.com/vw/forum/viewtopic.php?p=8965092#8965092

[Buggeee]

Awesome
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1966 Sportsmobile Camper https://www.thesamba.com/vw/forum/viewtopic.php?t=...mp;start=0
72 Super Duper http://www.thesamba.com/vw/forum/viewtopic.php?t=672387
(adopted out) 61 Turkis Pile https://www.thesamba.com/vw/forum/viewtopic.php?t=728764

[wrdrew]

[radstude]

Look in Good!
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1967 VW Fastback (Past)
1971 VW Bug (Past)
1975 VW Bus (Past)
2002 VW Mexican Bug 1600i